All winter two giant snowballs stood in the center of the trampled schoolyard, & another one off to the side I felt bad for, then felt foolish feeling bad for. Every day I observed them through the chain link fence. Three giant snowballs the strewn parts of a would-be snowperson’s body. I’m trying not to…
under the overpass of the Cross Bronx, the headlights flash on broken concrete—between cars and exit ramp—and some undefined hunk of metal rising out of broken glass; then the disconnected passage that got us to Manhattan comes to me like a collage of cities spilling off the map. All I know is my father left…
I am the lion. I am the keeper of the keys. Black hats float upon the waters. When I think, I’m sad; when I don’t, I’m elated, over-joyed. Dazzled by the silverblackbacked mirrorwings of three ravens, I follow the shadow dancers onto thin ice! Once I drank silence from a spring, Once I opened slowly…
I had a dreamover and over as a child in my shimmering morning-light room,—it was set there, where I slept, woodpeckers hammering at the eaves,the river’s waves’ light moving as if forever on the far wall.I’d wake (still asleep) in the dream —I couldn’t speak!— as the two hands hovered.So that even if I thought…
When you reach “a certain age,” time begins to accelerate, and you become acutely aware that there’s much less time ahead than behind. And when your older friends start dying, the closer you were to them, the more their deaths seem impossible, a mistake, some stupid oversight—a fatal lapse of attention that resulted in their…
New Works by Our Advisory Editors Alice Hoffman, The Marriage of Opposites, a novel (Simon & Schuster, August 2015) Bill Knott, I Am Flying Into Myself: Selected Poems. Edited by Thomas Lux (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2016) Thomas Lux, To the Left of Time, poems (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, April, 2016) Jay Neugeboren, Max Baer and…
Book Recommendations from Our Advisory Editors Ann Beattie recommends Salt and Pepper Cooking, The Education of an American Chef, by James Haller: “This slim book contains tons of information about coming of age, how one develops, and what part fate, friendship, and luck play in an individual’s life. As well as being humane and downright…
In 1988, when I went to Uruguay for the first time, the country was emerging from a long military dictatorship, and the capital, Montevideo, was a quiet, gray city that reminded me of Central Europe. The arts have always been important in Uruguay. You feel their presence everywhere—from the striking modern architecture that invigorates the…
They come jittering into her life from the past,brunette like her mother, wiryand tense, wearing garments blackas anthracite chopped from the city’s heart.Complaint rises like music or smokepast the elegant lamps of their facesas they settle their fringe and nail polishonto our secondhand couch: men, mostly,but the theme could be anything,children, money, uterine cramping,low brilliant…
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