Seven Stories Press, 2017 Nonfiction. 256 pp, paperback ISBN: 9781609807498 Order from Seven Stories Press Sexuality and identity are the twin goddesses that lend Jan Clausen’s Apples & Oranges its grace and urgency. In the late 1980s, after more than a … [Read more...]
Narrative Permission Slip
Here's one reason I don't blog on this site more often: I'm fulfilling requests for posts on other sites. Check out: My recent Tarpaulin Sky interview "Narrative Permission Slip," my new blog post for The Writer in the World. … [Read more...]
Nobody Leaves
“I, of course, saw my death before I died, though by then it is true, I could not stop it, I’d already walked into the accident knowingly, but, by the time it was about to happen, I and the others had completely set our course; there was no outcome other than my … [Read more...]
Great Moloch, Grant Us…
I wrote these lyrics in the waning months of the George W. Bush presidency. Ricky Riot composed a tune and performed it in a few venues around NYC. In light of the so-called reluctant warrior's new crusade against the latest great satan (I refer, of course, to the … [Read more...]
Everybody Wants Good Things
"What if we understand the death drive not only as manifested within the individual psyche, or in terms of group psychology, but as something that takes hold of institutions and guides their aims, sometimes with furtive tenacity?"--Judith Butler, review of Jacques … [Read more...]
Alternatives to Hope
A close friend of mine has mentioned more than once that she reads the final lines of my new book Veiled Spill: A Sequence (“April again/and once more the trees//veiling themselves/in each other”) as representing hope. Of course I get what she means, and I … [Read more...]
Mantras for a Rough Patch in Planetary Affairs
It sounds a little like a war zone out there, but it's just the police helicopters surveilling the West Indian Day Parade. I'm back from a trip to visit my West Coast relatives, and tomorrow, my city, that hive of alarming ambition, will be back on the job, … [Read more...]
O Engineers!
My father, whom I loved and in many ways admired, was an engineer. Following receipt of his master’s degree in forestry from the University of Minnesota in the late 1940’s, he got a job selling state-of-the-art chemicals used in wood preservation. Having … [Read more...]
SNOW DAY IN A THEME PARK
Feels as if I’m living in a theme park: that’s my line these days. A theme park called “The Brooklyn Experience” (as in: people who are paying top dollar will want the New Brooklyn retail experience, a line from some recent article about gentrification, maybe in … [Read more...]
Goddard, Heart and Soul
Throughout the last year of labor struggles at Goddard, I've been repeatedly struck by the degree to which this union fight is really a fight for the heart and soul of a college so many of us love deeply, even passionately. Looking back to the beginning of 2013, I … [Read more...]
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