Selections from my notebooks
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These notebooks
My poetry notebooks have been chiefly digital since 1995. In retrospect I find they contain a number of prose entries …
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Among some such astonishments
I look out across the autumn lake and think in a conventional way how sorry I shall be to leave …
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Ocean sarcophagus
I keep returning to a long-standing image: far out in deep ocean water, a fixed, dark marble sarcophagus, not floating …
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On order
Order is also an instinct. All human forms and constructions are arbitrary and gratuitous; this contemporary truism says nothing as …
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The good that can be lived
The good. Ideas of the good. The bad. The good of this moment, bourgeois, silencing in its beauty. The late …
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Contemporary lyric
What would the poem be like that reflected the broader world at the same time as affirming the lyric reality …
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Free verse
Now the free verse in which most of this new writing is emerging is indeed releasing. I’m grateful that it …