I keep checking my email app repeatedly refreshing every few minutes for that response I needed hours ago over again and over hoping the letter I wait for impatiently arrives faster each time.
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The Silver Jews is a band led by singer-songwriter-poet David Berman. In existence with varying personnel since 1990, formed in Hoboken, New Jersey, the Silver Jews has its sole constant in Berman. He is a singer in the same sense that Kris Kristofferson, Leonard Cohen, or Allen Ginsberg is a singer. Vocalizing in a flat,…
In sleep I saw a House of Dreams, golden doors open wide, liberty written on its walls, equality glowing inside. Then came the smiling thieves in tailored suits and ties, deceitful intent glibly oiled by their well practised lies. Inside, they plundered all its treasure, stripped all the jewelled beams, carried away the golden orbs…
Can’t seem to feel Am I a spider Am I a lie Can’t seem to dream Without the frills I need the pills Can’t seem to hide Can’t seem to move Am I a fraud Can’t seem to care Am I illusion Am I real or a nightmare They came by car They came by…
For my last post on A. R. Ammons [in June 2008], I thought I’d discuss the textual history of one of his very late poems, “Speaking.” Our genial host here at The Best American Poetry blog, David Lehman, arranged for this poem to be published in The New Yorker a few months after Ammons’s death in February…
