The Discipline of Vicinity

Far from a paean to the far-off and the frontier, Walden testifies to what is most next and near.

The Not-Saying

On the renunciation of poetry.

Reading Gjertrud Schnackenberg

The Throne of Labdacus and Supernatural Love.

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