Commentaries - June 2008

Prada deathcamp, etc.

Pieces at the 2002 show at the Jewish Museum, "Mirroring Evil: Nazi Imagery/Re

Poems under the influence

"Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside." Mark Twain wrote that. C. A.

Arranging poetry on your shelf

Robert Hillyer, known now (if at all) because he led the attack against Ezra Pound in 1949, was more generally an enemy of modernism.

Eros, c'est la vie

Anne d'Harnoncourt died suddenly last weekend (after coming home from minor surgery).