Note: This was originally published November 10, 2010. A few months ago, in April, to be exact, I started…
Big Other’s Birthday Tribute to William H. Gass, 2012
It’s probably too easy a move to begin my very brief remarks about Gass’s use of architecture as a metaphor…
Jamie Iredell’s “Literary Pillars”
First, it was really hard to narrow this down to fifty “literary pillars,” for myself as a writer. I had…
Best of 2011, Part 2
Lots of great things happened in 2011 for Gary Amdahl, Donald Breckenridge, Tobias Carroll, Aaron Gilbreath, Johannes Göransson, Dylan Hicks, Christopher…
Best of 2010, Part 1
Though this season has seen me being pummeled by the various viruses and whatnot that are floating around—not to mention…
Jamie Iredell on Stevens
I’m going to write about “Metaphor as Degeneration,” one of my favorite Stevens poems, from later in his career, from…
A Sentence About a Sentence I Love: An Anthology, of Sorts
A few months ago, in April, to be exact, I started a series of posts entitled “A Sentence About a…
A Sentence About a Sentence I Love, by Jamie Iredell
“In Wildness is the preservation of the world.” —Henry David Thoreau, in “Walking” It’s not in the complexities of…
Interview with Jamie Iredell
Jamie Iredell is the author of Prose. Poems. a novel. Evocative, lyrical, and alternately dreamy and corporeal, Iredell’s series of…
Look at this fucking writer: Jamie Iredell
I think this is a photo from the first grade. My teacher was Mrs. McLaughlin. She lived around the corner…