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

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

The name of the book is a ruse. Camping on Low or No Dollars, the dingy cover page reads. An older edition bears a similarly anodyne title: From Birmingham to Wendover. Both are a misdirection, ...

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

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 ...

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

Wrought on you by surprise.

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