In which the late poet recites his favorite poetry and discusses poetic relativity, the benefits of the solitary life, and his putative legacy. Interrupting Infinity exclusive content.
Poet Steve Dalachinsky’s eulogy to musician Ornette Coleman, delivered on 27 June 2015 at the Riverside Church in New York City.
Third Party Poetry: Reprinted with permission of Four Way Books.
2015 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry winner Gregory Pardlo, author of Digest (2014) and Totem (2007), discusses race, the African American literary canon, and why he writes. Interrupting Infinity exclusive content.
Sap buckets on maples; The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry; Scott Chaskey’s This Common Ground: Seasons on an Organic Farm; Masanobu Fukuoka’s 自然農法•わら一本の革命 (Natural Farming: One-Straw Revolution; Lady Eve Balfour; more.
Ecclesiastes; George R. Stewart’s The Earth Abides; Mary Shelley’s The Last Man; M. Forster’s “The Machine Stops”; Nevil Shute’s On the Beach; Ernest Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises; Pete Seeger’s “Turn! Turn! Turn! (to Everything There Is a Season)”; Jean-Paul Sartre’s La Nausée (Nausea); Thomas Wolfe’s You Can’t Go Home Again
