Proposed age requirement for reading Neruda
“Any young dude—and it’s always a young dude—who has a copy of [Neruda’s Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair] should be forced to turn it over until he reaches a responsible age.”
“Any young dude—and it’s always a young dude—who has a copy of [Neruda’s Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair] should be forced to turn it over until he reaches a responsible age.”
It’s true. The Biblical God is not a feminist. (Via.) But I still contend that Eve is a hero.
Most of us who threaten to flee the city for a shack in the wilderness don’t get any further than making terrariums and insufferably holding forth in bars, but eight years ago Philip Connors actually quit his job at the Wall Street Journal for a fire lookout post in New Mexico. In the intervening years, he’s written some magnificent . . .
David Orr talks with Laura Miller about his new book, Beautiful and Pointless, and “trying to communicate simultaneously with the Comic Book Guy and Moe the bartender.” He and other critics discuss poetry and the public tonight, 4/11, at Housing Works.