When Susan Orlean’s new book arrives next week at my branch library, it will be
assigned the Dewey decimal number 027.4794, which puts it in class 000, the
designation for Computer
I am typing this on a rare rainy day in Southern California, the first piece in
a re-launched Curator, a magazine I worked on as poetry editor for many years,
and a magazine
“The American Dream”, currently at the British Museum, is a colossal and almost
overwhelming exhibit. It took me a full two hours to go through it and I still
couldn’t see everything.
My wife raises children in a house
Full of knives and fire.
Electricity slithers through the walls.
Outside, stars fall like trees.
I warn her about this,
But she does not hear me.
