Tag Archives: American
Robert Wrigley: Allowable Error
A treasure from the AWP. Robert Wrigley reflects on the political in poetry across three wars. Wislawa Szymborska, who died this past February 1st, at the age of 88, won the Nobel Prize in 1996. She insisted no one was more surprised by this than she was. Newspapers all over the world reported her “embarrassment” […]
“There: An Epistle,” by Andrew Feld
And when I passed and drove away from there, The line of motorcycles in my rearview mirror Veered off the interstate in a smooth arc Distance streamlined the differences off of, as their dark Levis and leathers blacked out their pale skins And then their streaming numbers swallowed them. So the helmetless outlaw with the […]
The Moyea Valley Fire, Denis Johnson
When, in the summer of 1920, Robert Grainier came back from a job in the Robinson Gorge with four hundred dollars in his pocket, riding in a passenger car as far as Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, and then in a wagon up the Panhandle, a fire was consuming the Moyea Valley. He rode through a steadily […]