From the Archives: “I Have Tried to Write Paradise”

Spanish Gardens, Ezra Pound, Modern Poetry, and Antisemitism

Gardens of the Alcazar, Seville, Spain

I’m taking an extended road trip around the Thanksgiving holiday. You may have already read how much I love “Life in Motion.” If not, here it is temporarily out from behind the paywall.

Life in Motion

Every town and city we’ll be visiting, almost every road we travel, will be new to me. Heaven. But because of the length of the trip and the fact that I’ll be doing a lot of driving, I’ll also be taking a break from new writing. I’ll undoubtedly be doing social media posting on Notes, so look for me there, too.

My first new post will be the paid subscriber post of December 4. I’ll send out a preview of it to free subscribers, too. Thursday, December 7 will offer the next essay or creative piece available to all subscribers. In the meantime, I’m suspending paid subscriptions as of this past Monday until 12/4, so paid subscribers lose no time on that subscription clock, and I’ll be posting a From the Archives essay for each of the next three Thursdays, starting today. …