Reading Sara Ryan’s Never Leave the Foot of an Animal Unskinned
Within reach from my desk is a small wooden box. Inside is a snake’s skull, the gift of a friend…
Posts Tagged 'environment'
Mary Oliver & Gerard Manley Hopkins
Last week I read Gerard Manley Hopkins at length for the first time (I’d read “Spring and Fall” several times…
Los Angeles Made Wild: Eloise Klein Healy, Artemis in Echo Park
Eloise Klein Healy is one of those writers whose style became associated with L.A. after the 1960s: loose lines, conversational…
On Drought and Salt
Tonight, thankfully, it’s raining. About time. L.A. supposedly saw off a brutal drought a year ago. Then came last year’s…
What Matters at Point Reyes
The other day, I picked up Robert Bly’s Point Reyes Poems, a chapbook first published in the mid-70s. Bly is…
Still Life with Apocalypse and Antelope
A new study, assessing nearly fifty years of data, has concluded that sperm counts have tumbled 50% and more…
Left Write & Centaur 