Posts by: Henry Gould

Preface to Lissa Wolsak

Sep, 2013 | by

1. It Must Be Abstract Lissa Wolsak is a major American poet, living in Vancouver; Squeezed Light is a comprehensive gathering of her published work, which includes seven poem-sequences, a…

Wiman’s Mandelstam (and Mine)

Nov, 2012 | by

One evening about thirty five years ago, I was browsing the poetry shelves of College Hill Bookstore, in Providence, and picked up the Selected Poems of Osip Mandelstam, translated by…

Stuart Blazer’s Ruffled Surf

May, 2012 | by

That silo you never saw until today was yours the day you were born. –Richard Hugo Why don’t you make a mistake and do something right. –Sun Ra Man was…

Jerusalem and Albion; or, Maze and Barleycorn

Jan, 2012 | by

“the imperfect is our paradise” — Wallace Stevens “God uses broken people to reach a broken world.” — Gov. Rick Perry 1. If There Could Be a Center If there…

Reading Gabriel Gudding

Mar, 2010 | by

I. G.G. and the Humble Sublime Gabriel Gudding is an upstart crow, the only shake-scene in the country. The scene he shakes and bobbles is not merely the snow-globe of…