Prufrock's Dilemma

The Danube is not blue, as Karl Isador Beck calls it in the lines which suggested to Strauss the fetching, mendacious title to his waltz. —...

—for Jan & Ann While at magnificent Elk Lake in the Adirondacks this year, I had cause to think of John, that consummate birder, over...

His basic attitude toward language is joy.  It amazes me how many people have a problem with that. —Mark Kerstetter The poet John Ashbery ...

I put my hand inside his cranium, oh we had such a brainiac-amour But no more, no more, I gotta move from my mind to the area (go Rimbaud...

This past Easter, George Wallace , in his own inimitable commemoration of Easter Sunday, tweeted out a video of Patti Smith singing her song...