Tag: Joyce Carol Oates
Songs in the Key of Grief
“I like a look of Agony, Because I know it’s true— Men do not sham Convulsion Nor simulate, a Throe— The Eyes glaze once—and that is Death— Impossible to feign The Beads upon the Forehead By homely Anguish Strung.“ —Emily Dickinson To say I was looking forward to reading Edward Hirsch’s new […]