Home Goes the Pilot up the Wind: On Oscar Mandel (1926-2026)

The May issue of Poetry magazine featured my little essay on the poetry of nostalgia, in which I characterized myself as being “[m]ore susceptible to the pull of the past than many of those around me.” I had in mind both the stream of my own experiences and the larger current of history. One tends to flow into Continue reading Home Goes the Pilot up the Wind: On Oscar Mandel (1926-2026)