Interdisciplinary Transcription journal
Andy Fitch and Jon Cotner have assembled a stellar cast of poets, critics, and artists for a special issue of Intervalles on “Interdisciplinary Transcription.” I’m honored to be included. Most contributors have submitted creative work, but mine is a critical essay about Andy Warhol and his transcription practice, adapted from my dissertation. (It’s in PDF [...]
The Next in Line published
My first book of poems, The Next in Line, is now available for purchase at SPD (small press distribution) and Amazon.
Jack Spicer
My review of Jack Spicer’s My Vocabulary Did This To Me, from Time Out New York:
Jack Spicer’s poetic talent was both a burden and a kind of magic. Like Blake and Yeats before him, this Bay Area figurehead believed that his poems were dictations from the “spooks” and “martians” of the spirit world. When Spicer [...]
Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell
My review of their correspondence, for Time Out New York:
“Do / you still hang your words in air, ten years / unfinished.…” Those lines are Robert Lowell’s, from a poem honoring Elizabeth Bishop’s exemplary forbearance. As a title to this lovely, if exhausting, collection of the poets’ 30-year correspondence, Words in Air takes on new meaning, evoking the perilous [...]
