Whose Terror?
I remember hearing the news and thinking that this was going to end badly for everyone. I had no idea just how bad things would get.
Afterword to an Introduction
Posted on November 9, 2023
Image: THR illustration; Amelia Rosselli in the 1960s; background art by Lisa Buchanan.
The special challenge of presenting a poet whose work is neither new nor widely known.
You Can’t Fact Check Propaganda
Could it be otherwise? Probably not, at least at the moment.
The Anti-Poetry of John Milton
Posted on November 21, 2023
Image: Satan Watching the Caresses of Adam and Eve (detail), 1808, by William Blake (1757–1827); public domain, via Wikimedia Commons; https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:William_Blake_-_Satan_Watching_the_Caresses_of_Adam_and_Eve_-_WGA02226.jpg.
There is nothing winsome about this Jesus, but winsomeness is not, Milton believes, what we need from him.
Unfinished Business
Posted on November 29, 2023
Image: Fleeing Paris in 1940; © LAPI/Roger Viollet.
An unfinished fiction is a memento mori.