Commercial Interruption
I just learned that a Millennial Pedestrian subscriber bought 20 copies of The Millennial Pedestrian book as gifts for the holidays. While this blog is not exactly what you’d call a commercial venture in the classic P & L sense, lurking in the background there is a product. So pardon me for interrupting your […]
A Small Mountain in ConnecticutGlossy lacquered boomerang, the lake belowreflects the oblique morning sun. Two white V’sfrom speeding motorboats incise its polished face.Hills pile up around it, tweedy as a woven textilespread in tumbled folds beneath a sky rinsed clean by last night’s wind and rain. Above a turkey buzzard drifts, still wings finding lift,banking […]
I didn’t know the work of Paul Violi until I came across this poem in The Best American Poetry 2006. Turns out he’s written 12 books of poetry, he’s just about my age, teaches at The New School and Columbia. I am going to track down some of his books and see if the rest […]
