by John Ashbery
Somewhere someone is traveling furiously toward you,
At incredible speed, traveling day and night,
Through blizzards and desert heat, across torrents, through narrow passes.
But will he know where to find you,
Recognize you when he sees you,
Give you the thing he has for you?
Hardly anything grows here,
Yet the granaries are bursting with meal,
The sacks of meal piled to the rafters,
The streams run with sweetness, fattening fish;
Birds darken the sky.
Archive for August, 2009
At North Farm
Posted By Zócalo On August 18, 2009Wrestling with Moses
Posted By Zócalo On August 18, 2009
Wrestling with Moses: How Jane Jacobs Took On New York’s Master Builder and Transformed the American City
by Anthony Flint
—Reviewed by Adam Fleisher
Robert Caro’s masterpiece The Power Broker, first published in 1974, is the definitive account of how Robert Moses, “America’s greatest builder,” ruined New York City. From the 1920s into the 1960s, Moses…
Gustav Niebuhr on Religious Tolerance
Posted By Zócalo On August 16, 2009
Gustav Niebuhr, a former religion reporter for The New York Times, is an associate professor of religion and the media at Syracuse University. Niebuhr is the grandson of H. Richard Niebuhr and the great nephew of Reinhold Niebuhr, two of America’s most distinguished theologians. Though discussing religion was a big part of his family life.
I Am Waiting
Posted By Zócalo On August 16, 2009by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
I am waiting for my case to come up
and I am waiting
for a rebirth of wonder
and I am waiting for someone
to really discover America
and wail
and I am waiting
for the discovery
of a new symbolic western frontier
and I am waiting
for the American Eagle
to really spread its wings
and straighten up and fly right
and I am waiting
for the Age of Anxiety
to drop dead
Our Lot
Posted By Zócalo On August 14, 2009
Our Lot: How Real Estate Came to Own Us
by Alyssa Katz
In the real estate business, it can be hard to tell where Wall Street stops and Main Street begins. As Alyssa Katz suggests in Our Lot, the blurry nature of this divide may well be the reason for the collapse of the real estate market….
ArticlesFeuilletonFriday, December 3, 2010 How One Family Created Chinese America
PoetryThis week in L.A.From the green room
Wordpress template made by HeJian
|
