essays

“MY LIFE AS A WRITER” (Guggenheim Fellowship statement)
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JIM MOORE ON HOW READING KENNETH REXROTH CHANGED HIS LIFE
Reader’s Almanac, Library of America Blog
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“IS THERE LIFE AFTER ELEGY?” (1982)
from Views from the Loft: A Portable Writer’s Workshop. Milkweed Editions, 2010.
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