Arts & Culture Last Take
Angela Alaimo O'DonnellSeptember 21, 2017
“Show me a hero and I’ll write you a tragedy.” –F. Scott Fitzgerald
Reading a great biography is like watching a tragedy unfold. The promises of youth gradually give way to the limitations imposed by reality, and demise and denouement inevitably ensue.
Arts & Culture Poetry
Paul MarianiSeptember 08, 2017
What stays with me in reading Ashbery is the sense of existential loneliness beneath the linguistic play and multiple voices.