Garbage as Poetry
“He has a formidable brain . . . No other contemporary poet has presented
himself so unabashedly as a thinker as well as an artist.”
-Roger Gilbert on A.R. Ammons
Garbage? Poetry? Redemption? These ideas
Literature
An Interstate Book Club
Browsing through a used bookstore a few weeks ago, I [Rebecca] came across
mysterious handwritten notes in Annie Dillard’s Teaching a Stone to Talk. These
notes were written not in the margins,
Love, <br />Zombie-fied
Love is a strange thing.
Yet stranger, still, are the things that cause us to fall in love. For some,
flirtation begins with arrogance – a haughty tango between the mind’s sharp wit
The Case for the <br />Much-Maligned Short Story
The average person, confronted with a free half hour, might spend it watching
television or staring at a computer screen – or maybe reading a novel. Maybe.
But of those inclined to read, few
<em>The Forecast</em>: A Counterfeit Memoir <br />About Everything You Know is True
“Religious novels make me uncomfortable, so I decided not to write one.”
So reads the first page of Caroline Ferdinandsen’s first novel, The Forecast
[http://www.conversantlife.com/theforecast], available this month