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Go… the Summer, Fall, and Winter of Discontent

Posted by GK Stritch | Feb 12, 2014 | Essays

The summer, the fall, and the winter of discontent, shovel after shovel of snow that turns to...

“There are many mansions in the house of poetry,” i writes Louis “Paterson’s principal poet” ii to...

Posted by GK Stritch | Jan 24, 2014 | Essays

The best dream I ever had brought me joy. (My best friend of more than twenty years died. That’s...

For “electronic laser TV generations that don’t read Dostoyevsky” quoth Allen Ginsberg Fyodor,...

A gentle creature A slender young woman, fifteen years and nine months With very large eyes An...

August, 1968, Chicago. It was the Summer of long hair, and long hot nights. Small wonder America...

White nights Young nights Petersburg romantic lights Ivanhoe and Norman knights Rossini’s la-la...

Hot chocolate . . . delicious Blustery deep freeze winds Cut through cruel canyons of Manhattan...