Prufrock's Dilemma

Last night at the Chapel of the Holy Innocents at Bard College, the ensemble Contemporaneous reached a thrilling new milestone in the annal...

During intermission at a recital, Dylan Mattingly bounded over to his red and black-trimmed bag and pulled out a huge manuscript.  Its spir...

Verlaine ? Il est caché parmi l'herbe, Verlaine —Stéphane Mallarmé Long ago, I sat in a circle of fifteen girls as Madame __, her hair...

  Ravel wrote most of Le Tombeau de Couperin in 1914, before the outbreak of World War I.  His initial intention had been “a set of dances ...

"The dead are sad enough, in their eternal silence." —Maurice Ravel Near my house in Dutchess County are several old rura...

“ 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...