The experience is absolute; a demonstration is made of the presence of an incomplete reality to which its image is opposed by the intervention of a motor element condensing the real and the virtual into a superior unity.

Every year in April I am reminded of two monumental poetic works which begin with the Earth’s springtime renewal: The Canterbury Tales from 1400 and The Waste Land from 1922. 

Art, that great teacher, says to us, like Robert Frost’s most famous lines, “Here are your waters and your watering place. / Drink and be whole again beyond confusion.”

What does Maurice think of America’s most esteemed collection of fine art? The world may never know!

Casper’s quest has brought him into contact with many strange characters, but this might be the strangest of them all!

A dog, a car, and a surveillance camera: what could go wrong?

For Octave, escaping from the clutches of kidnapping pirates is an easy feat. Determining what matters to him on a philosophical level? That’s a different story!

Welcome to Ruby’s world, where dreams come true…for better or for worse!

Has happiness finally found German, or is it too good to be true?

Sunday is Fauntleroy’s day to relax and take it easy, but this week fate has something quite different in store for him!

“We hear the intuitive Bloom, the open and receptive reader, the brooder and fabulous conversation partner, talking and chuckling, searching and scowling; we see him rubbing his brow and thinking aloud…”

In this latest Anvil and Rose, Inspector Watt reviews books by Agustín Guambo, David Lehman, J. Michael Martinez, Maureen N. McLane, and Chelsey Minnis.

Octave’s most difficult adventure might be…doing nothing?

In order to accomplish great feats, sometimes one must find help from unlikely sources…and the Chemist might have found the most unlikely of them all!

Adam Morris reviews Padma Viswanathan’s new translation of São Bernardo by Graciliano Ramos. “The novel is at once a merciless satire of social class in postcolonial Brazil, and a sensitivity reader’s worst nightmare.“

Four prose pieces by Dan Elkind.

However outlandish the utterance, however devious the digression, or pained the disclosure, an Olson poem conveys and keeps a somber promise, that words will not fail. 

Octave has been kidnapped! Will our optimistic hero be able to see the bright side of this situation?

Magic is in the air today…more than we can begin to imagine!

Helen Adam is a singular luminary whose ballads, if you read them out loud and late at night, will sneak into your mind and create phantasmagorias of exquisite, sensual, brooding, and melancholy fairy-tales.