“That process of soul-waking (as distinct from Keats’s ‘soul-making’) finds an analogy, as the monologue unfolds, in Lippi’s defense of his art—its realism (truthfulness, he’d say) as opposed to the spiritualized naturalism of…

Close Encounters By David Havird “‘Can you see me?’ he asked before opening the book, holding it up for me to study; and sure enough, there he was amid the variously green-tinted kudzu…

Close Encounters By David Havird “William O. Douglas—the name, and not just the poster’s rusty red lettering, appears to have faded. He is ‘Justice Warren Douglas’ in one scholar’s reference to the poem;…