Can Poetry Re-Enchant the Modern World?

The philosopher Charles Taylor goes hunting for cosmic connections

When the protagonist of Miranda July’s recent novel, All Fours, plummets into a crisis, she realizes, at age 45, that she “had entirely misunderstood the assignment, the scale of what life asked of us.” She had “only been living second to second—just coping—this whole time.” Being a writer, the character’s ...
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Can Poetry Re-Enchant the Modern World?

The Blue House

An excerpt from The Ocean in the Next Room

I'm still here in the city I entered years ago.I've been in the city all this time.I don't look up and around much anymore.I've been studying philosophy and having a sonand killing time. I follow my son from roomto room in our two-room rental. While he sleeps,I kill a roach ...
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The Blue House

Indictus: by Natalie Eilbert

A review

Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita mi ritrovai per una selva oscura, che la diritta via era smarrita … Io non so ben ridir com’ io v’ entrai, tanto era pien di sonno in su quel punto che la verace via abbandonai ...  —Dante Alighieri, Inferno 1. That words are “filthy” and yet poetry is redemptive is the provocative ...
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Indictus: by Natalie Eilbert