Now Available From Graywolf Press
Book Title: Everything Preserved
Author: Landis Everson
Editor: Ben Mazer
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Genre: Poetry
From the daily archives:
Wednesday, June 3, 2009
Wednesday we ruminate. We nod to the past, with news concerning Arthur Miller and an infamous blond, we learn of a respected Irish writer’s ascent to the throne of Henry James, and gander, panoramic-like, at Jay McInerney’s career. And then we dust off the shelves and bring in the computers, as Benjamin Kunkel, and the People’s Daily discuss how literature’s scope is being redefined by online writing. Oh, and for good measure, we’ve tossed in a delightful tale of two writers making friends in a strip club. — Kevin Murphy
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Amtrak estimated nine hours travel time from Charleston, SC to Ft. Lauderdale. Scheduled to board at six, I cracked the dawn with depot coffee and the first page of Gunter Grass’ The Tin Drum.
The depot dappled with the broken smiles and bleary eyes of travel. We were all waiting for the first glimpse of the train to button through the distance. When the train didn’t arrive, the depot stirred with tension. Transformed from mere waiting room into something much more cruel and disruptive, I chuckled as Grass’ hero, the beneficent hellion Oskar Matzerath, opened the tale with this disclaimer, “Granted: I am an inmate of a mental hospital.”
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