Fascination with a failed love is a surgical experience. Some chemical tide turns and the tedium of pulling the stitches apart is irresistible. That something so ineffable could be made up of the kinds of things one can list and turn over and stack and compare begs vivisection in that state of mind. If the […]
Roxanne Carter is bedecked with an MFA from Brown and a PhD from the University of Denver, but the reason I invoke these qualifications is because it is she who brings the dazzle to what she touches. Her words are their own rhythm. When she starts she does not stop. When she stops you can […]
Today, because of technology, there is an unprecedented amount of language; so much, it seems to me, that the writer’s job is not to create more language, but rather to engage in the management of this mass of existing language….The simple act of moving information from one place to another today constitutes a significant cultural […]
