A Rite of Confession: A Poem
One of the great pleasures of reading, but even more, of listening to poetry, or music, especially opera, is the …
Category Archives: Books
A Song
By Max Aub, Spain Translation by Will Kirkland The sun crackles and the earth is mute. No shade for anyone. …
Krugman: Conscience of a Liberal
I, with 50 -100 mile days in the car, often turn to audio books, from Lincoln’s speeches to Joyce’s Portrait …
The Starting Gun
The day was still crumbling from the night before. From five hours earlier, at three-thirty in the morning, the white …
The Sutras of Abu Ghraib
Aidan Delgado is a brave man. A man you want on your team. Not because he faces danger without trembling, …
Vacation: Canada Blogging
Well! Imagine my surprise, after four days of trying and failing I just got an internet connection from Southern Alberta, …
Vacation: 4th of July Rodeo in Jackson
The Fourth of July Rodeo in Jackson, Wyoming begins with John Wayne’s slow spoken rendition of “You Ask Me Why …
Vacation: Bear On the Trail
The cotton woods are in full shed these weeks along the Snake river riffling through Jackson Hole, Wyoming. Some breezy …
Vacation: Yellowstone Divide
We are feeling very divided today, crossing the Continental Divide three times in less than an hour — getting to …
Vacation: Time Train
Coming down the slope from the Bozeman pass east to Livingston, Montana, we look around, imagining. Once a shallow, wide …
Poems from Guantanamo
IS IT TRUE? By Osama Abu Kabir Is it true that the grass grows again after rain? Is it true …
The Six Day War, Some Years Later
The famous “Six Day War” of the Middle East –Israel against its antagoneighbors– has come to its 40th anniversary. The …