Or that there wasn’t a caesura, that the career, as we call it, was something like a recipe experiment for the summer, something one had to have tried out before returning to regular recipes.
The Bretton Woods conference marked the dawning of a new era for the global economy. [...] Trade flows increased after the years of autarky during the war, and a new age of globalisation began.
the mental legerdemain necessary to portray our most precious internalities as external to us
some of my early poems were ekphrastic
What Indiana portrays in place of this myth is a kind of pathological integument binding together nodes of “normalcy,” where the deficits and obsessions characteristic of the criminal appear in an acceptable guise
