I have a short story in the new fall issue of Chicago Quarterly Review! It is about a man who s’s his p’s. Have you ever done that? Don’t lie. Buy it here: a.co/d/fSpbdaO
That face you make after you’ve written the line, “She would've been a good woman if it had been somebody there to shoot her every minute of her life.”
2. A great artist like Kubrick or Joyce can create matrices of meaning in their work and have these play off each other, creating the illusion of critical inexhaustibility.
ALT
Recommendation
BY KEITH LEONARD
To whom it may concern, I recommend this student
without reservation. I’ve taught him in three courses.
I know him the way one knows a small seaside town
after window shopping its main street. I’ve seen him
cry once. He handed in a paper on utopias
despite his parents’ protracted divorce.
When I read a perfect transcript, the string of As
also sound like a scream. I often think of the scene
in Alice in Wonderland where the servants paint white roses red
because the queen had ordered red roses for the garden.
ALT Poem
Every morning I forget how it is.
I watch the smoke mount
In great strides above the city.
Tbelong to no one.
Then I remember my shoes,
How I have to put them on,
How bending over to tie them up
I will look into the earth.