Prufrock's Dilemma

“ Clepsydra” is really a meditation on how time feels as it is passing. —John Ashbery John Ashbery’s poem, Clepsydra , begins with the phra...

Dateline Thursday, July 14, 2011, 12PM. Just back from the Adirondacks , I set out for Innisfree Garden with my camera, too-short teleph...

You don’t have to review.  Just respond. —David Bloom A couple posts back, I asked, “ Does Anyone Still Compose a Waltz ?’  I fear...

A journey is always a rescue operation, the documentation and harvesting of something that is becoming extinct and will soon disappear, the ...

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 ...