There’s a guy in Hillside, Illinois who gets it. He’s been printing these chaste, understated…

(1) Homer, (2) Virgil, (3) Horace, (4) Ovid, (5) Lucan, (6) Dante—the list is hot.  And I gotta say…

But the symbol in Valéry isn’t naïve—he presents the life of the mind as a series of intersected…

I wish more serious poets strived for this poem’s looseness.

“This habit of reading,” Frym observes, “is a form of protectionism, a kind of amulet to counter…