Essays and More
Here are links to some essays I have done, some published, some not, as well as other incidental prose:
Blake in the Academe
Joseph Epstein and the Death of Poetry
In Defense of D.H. Lawrence
Something About Wendell Berry and William Carlos Williams
Claude McKay Walks in Ferguson
Promotional Interview for Against Holy War
What Light Through Yonder Window Breaks
Introduction to The Peony Pavilion
Introduction to War for Peace
Introduction to Small Poems
Perhaps owing to a measure of untidy discursiveness acceptable to me in prose, but not to my editors, several of these essays appeared online in reduced or altered versions. Here are links to those published versions: "Claude McKay Walks in Ferguson" is found here; "Blake in the Academe" here; and "The Man Who Killed Poetry: Joseph Epstein and His Essays" here.
Blake in the Academe
Joseph Epstein and the Death of Poetry
In Defense of D.H. Lawrence
Something About Wendell Berry and William Carlos Williams
Claude McKay Walks in Ferguson
Promotional Interview for Against Holy War
What Light Through Yonder Window Breaks
Introduction to The Peony Pavilion
Introduction to War for Peace
Introduction to Small Poems
Perhaps owing to a measure of untidy discursiveness acceptable to me in prose, but not to my editors, several of these essays appeared online in reduced or altered versions. Here are links to those published versions: "Claude McKay Walks in Ferguson" is found here; "Blake in the Academe" here; and "The Man Who Killed Poetry: Joseph Epstein and His Essays" here.