… I was looking through photographs, all in a mess, not looking for anything in particular, and found the one above taken, I think, around …
16 May
… I bought Cuento del Conejo y el Coyote illustrated by the artist Francisco Toledo when I was in Oaxaca in 1999 finishing up my …
12 May
… The photo above is Life Cafe, or what is left of Life Cafe, 10th Street and Avenue B, NYC. (Oh those were the days!) …
11 May
… My favorite poem by Rimbaud is innocent and sexy at the same time. A boy has run away from home and now dirty but …
5 May
… My mother used to have a plaque on the wall; I think it was made of wrought iron, painted black with white and red …
4 May
… The Bridge, it’s said, was Hart Crane’s reaction to T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land, which he admired very much, but Crane wanted to write …
28 Apr
… On Friday I took the C uptown to 96th Street. A man on the train, as a pretty woman entered and sat down across …
27 Apr
… Je suis belle, ô mortels! comme un rêve de pierre, Et mon sein, où chacun s’est meurtri tour à tour, Est fait pour inspirer …
23 Apr
… El pájaro ha venido a dar la luz: de cada trino suyo nace el agua. Y entre agua y luz que el aire desarrollan …
21 Apr
… When I got home from work Monday afternoon, the news from Boston came over the Internet and spread so quickly that when I went …
20 Apr
… Charles Baudelaire wrote Une Charogne to his lover, Jeanne Duval, a Haitian actress, who met Baudelaire when she left Haiti for France in 1842. …
14 Apr
… On Friday, as I walked down 2nd Avenue in the rain coming back from the gym—after some laps in the pool (my crawl is …