Stevie Smith – Not Waving But Drowning Nobody heard him, the dead man, But still he lay moaning: I was much further out than you thought And not waving but drowning. Poor chap, he always loved larking And now he’s dead It must have been too cold for him his heart gave way, They said. [...]
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Heard back from The Southern Indiana Review. A form rejection, no ink, which says they can’t use my article at this time because of page restrictions and previously solicited work. That sounds a lot better than “you stink” but, oddly enough, doesn’t feel much different…
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Last night I finished Within a Budding Grove, the second volume of In Search of Lost Time. For me, reading Proust is more a project than a pure pleasure, although there is plenty of pleasure to be had in the experience. I take my time, seldom reading more than 50 pages in a sitting, often [...]
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And while we’re on the subject of reading, here are some interesting thoughts from Rodney Welch: The Blog about re-reading: For me, re-reading is what reading is, or should be, all about. The problem is that little of what we read, little of modern literature, really demands a second reading, although some does. This of [...]
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