From the Archives: The Words

Performance and Literariness in Poetry

The ending of T.S. Eliot’s “The Wasteland”

I’m still recovering (though recovering I am) from a vicious cold that left me almost ;) incapable of posting Notes but definitely beyond extended composition. I also still await the video of Projecting L.A. 2024 I plan to share, so I offer another selection out from behind the paywalled archives. Next week and that after I’ll be traveling for leisure — Ohio for a college graduation and to visit family, then New York, where, among other pleasures, I’ll be dining with a gathering of Substackers, so what I share may be inventive.

For today, it occurs to me that recent work here on Homo Vitruvius has been essay heavy and, with one exception, short on my poetry. Here, then, from last June, an essay on poetry combined with an important poem from my collection Waiting for Word. You might take it as a declaration of mission.