Below are two pieces derived from James Joyce’s collected letters. The first one plays on a comment from Ezra Pound…
A Sentence About a Sentence I Love, by John Domini
“And more than once, in their middle years, she and King Shahryar had pretended in bed that her life was…
A Sentence About a Sentence I Love, by Alexandra Chasin
“Like sands through the hourglass, so are the days of our lives.” How is the question posed by any simile,…
A Sentence About a Sentence I Love, by Matt Bell
“It was like looking at a rock pile and trying to imagine an avalanche.” —from Guide, by Dennis Cooper …
A Sentence About a Sentence I Love, by Lance Olsen
RHETORIC The art of making life less believable; the calculated use of language, not to alarm but to do…
A Sentence About a Sentence I Love, by Ken Sparling
“There was a wall.” This is the first sentence of THE DISPOSSESED by Ursula K. Le Guin, and the…
A Sentence About a Sentence I Love, by Gary Amdahl
“He projected himself all day, in thought, straight over the bristling line of hard unconscious heads and into the other,…
A Sentence About a Sentence I Love, by Andrew Borgstrom
“John’s red sow won’t go / out of labor so we stay all night / and John brings coffee and…