Essay on Bohumil Hrabel’s I Served the King of England
Published in Lost Classics: Writers on Books Loved and Lost.
“Nine Boxes”
Poem published in A Convergence of Birds: Original Fiction and Poetry Inspired by the Work of Joseph Cornell.
“The Man with the Red Crayon”
Features the life and artworks of Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin, an 18th-century French painter. Published in Modern Painters in Spring, 2000
“Haiku”
A Haiku on Chardin, published in Art Issues.
“Franklin Pangborn: An Apologia”
“Franklin Pangborn: An Apologia.” O.K. You Mugs: Writers on Movie Actors.
“Not Just Bottles”
An essay on the works of artist Giorgio Morandi.
“Ghosts at the Table”
An essay on visual art.
“Gatsby’s Glasses”
Published in Conjunctions: 29.
“A Plea for Eros”
“A Plea for Eros” published in Brick.
“Vermeer’s Annunciation”
Every painting is always two paintings: the one you see and the one you remember, which is also to say that every painting worth talking about reveals itself over time and takes on its own story inside the viewer.
“Houdini”
A short story, first published in Fiction 9 in 1990.
“Mr. Morning”
A short story first published in Ontario Review in 1989.
“Eclipse” and “Hermaphroditic Parallels”
Poems published in Paris Review in 1987.
“Weather Markings”
A poem originally published in Paris Review in 1981.
“Broken Geometry”
A poem published by Pequot in 1981.
