Monthly Archives: August 2012

Elizabeth Bachner on the tragic pursuit of fantasy and beauty “Odds are I’m alive. /Odds are, like a jockey gone to slop,/ There’s skip and nimble in me yet, /There’s a length of neck to stake, and there’s cunning, /And … Continue reading →

A Modern Helen of Troy

Trees by Joyce Kilmer I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree. A tree whose hungry mouth is prest Against the sweet earth’s flowing breast; A tree that looks at God all day, And lifts … Continue reading →

From Flavorwire: “Best known for his work on Red Colored Elegy, an underground Japanese manga from the early ’70s, Manchuria-born artist Seiichi Hayashi more recently drew a striking series of illustrations of young women that were featured in a 2008 … Continue reading →