A book is always about the world, and happy people don’t have time for “about.” 14. Through writing, if you’re lucky, you ...

The Guide is either the train hopper’s Bible or an outdated relic, a must-have or a crutch, depending on whom you ask.” ...

It turns out that for Ashbery, the big theory was psychoanalysis, the process by which secondhand knowledge becomes firsthand ...

I found myself in a strange and sad place when suddenly there was my old love, B. She walked burdened by old age. Knowing that I will never see her again, I felt such deep sorrow. I found myself in a ...

"Come with me, and I will show you a beautiful bed. " And St. Francis led her to a large fire.

through the café-window créped in powder-smoke? The bill for the new farce reads Sleepers Awake.

Remember where I came from. Think of a continent of sabled czars. Leave your home. Let exile fill your mouth like the lost language of the child. Understand the reason. A man who would not wear the ...

Wrought on you by surprise.

it stands here quiet in the cool salt taste of the morning.

I’m tired of lying here. The mountain and the river are not bad.