Poem of the Day: Ogden Nash’s “Giant Baby Giant Panda”
This, it seems to me, is not so far removed from George Wither’s motto: “I grow and wither both together.””
This, it seems to me, is not so far removed from George Wither’s motto: “I grow and wither both together.””
If you are a close reader of this blog, you’ve likely noticed that I’ve been posting an awful lot lately. I suppose it is time to finally come out of the closet: I am indeed the new chair of the English Department at the George Washington University. I have been happy to be part of…
If We Must Die If we must die, let it not be like hogs Hunted and penned in an inglorious spot, While round us bark the mad and hungry dogs, Making their mock at our accursed lot. If we must die, O let us nobly die, So that our precious blood may not be shed…
Sonnet LI Summer so histrionic, marvelous dirty days is not genuine it shines forth from the faces littered with soup, cigarette butts, the heavy is a correspondent the innocence of childhood sadness graying the faces of virgins aching and everything comes before their eyes to be fucked, we fondle their snatches but they that the…
Ararat Wrapped in gold foil, in the search and shouting of Easter Sunday, it was the ball of the princess, it was Pharoah’s body sleeping in its golden case. At the foot of the picket fence, in grass lank with the morning rain, it was a Sunday school prize, silver for second place, gold for…
Hélas To drift with every passion till my soul Is a stringed lute on which all winds can play, Is it for this that I have given away Mine ancient wisdom, and austere control? Methinks my life is a twice-written scroll Scrawled over on some boyish holiday With idle songs for pipe and virelay, Which…
Professor McRuer in Mexico’s Museo Nacional de Antropología It’s hard to believe that it’s already mid-August and that classes at The George Washington University start one week from Monday. Our faculty has been far and wide this summer and, indeed, you should watch this blog in the days ahead for news of all the projects…