Etiqueta: essay

  • The Score by Walter Bargen

    The Score by Walter Bargen

    “Rocket tennis,” how the apartments’ tenantskeep score, keep perspective, laugh, save a bloody sliverof sanity, so they don’t throw open the scarred doorto run out into the debris strewn street,believing they can win the game, leap the net,shake hands, before they leave their citywith one more breath and their trophies…

  • Between edges by TETIANA ALEKSINA

    Between edges by TETIANA ALEKSINA

    A road… just two edges and infinity between them. To step on the edge. To diverge from the road. To live, as if you’re immortal, is one edge. To live, as if your death is inevitable, is the other edge. Edges aren’t the road. Let yourself be immortal. Walking on the edge. Stepping…

  • On Writing by Luisa Zambrotta

    Wystan Hugh Auden (1907 – 29 September 1973) is an Anglo-American poet whose four hundred poems elucidate everything from love to social themes and profound meditation. (Here you can read Funeral Blues and Elegy for J.F.K.) Awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1948 for “The Age of Anxiety”, a long poem…