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Greg Gerke

Pain (

He imagined a life for himself that was already pre-pitfalls and even wrote a book about his pain and how it resembled him — for how could…

Sep 30

Pain (

Sep 30

Poussin in Mind’s Eye (Ego)

Moses Rescued from the Waters, 1638

Sep 11

Poussin in Mind’s Eye (Ego)

Sep 11

On Peckinpah’s Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid

I see all the reviews calling this film a “poetic triumph” and “sad,” but I will go off course and say it’s poetic because of the light and…

Aug 22

On Peckinpah’s Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid

Aug 22

While Reading Absalom, Absalom!

While becoming entranced in those endlessly accumulating sentences in Faulkner’s Absalom, Absalom ! again, I came to a different…

Aug 19

While Reading Absalom, Absalom!

Aug 19

WHILE READING INGEBORG BACHMANN’S MALINA

(Originally published in Berfois)

Aug 16

WHILE READING INGEBORG BACHMANN’S MALINA

Aug 16

WHY SEBALD?

(Orginially published in Berfois)

Jul 16

WHY SEBALD?

Jul 16

The Hard Rain of Henry James

I remember walking in Portland with a good friend of mine — a good writer friend — when suddenly he ejaculated, in proper Jamesian fashion…

Jul 7

The Hard Rain of Henry James

Jul 7

Elizabeth Bishop — On a Passage from the poem “Poem”

I never knew him. We both knew this place, apparently, this literal small backwater, looked at it long enough to memorize it, our years…

Jun 20

Elizabeth Bishop — On a Passage from the poem “Poem”

Jun 20

Vestiges (Life and Art book)

The vestige — what I’m selling is art directs us every moment of our day — every moment unconsciously or not, we are remembering the…

Jun 12

Vestiges (Life and Art book)

Jun 12

Excerpt from The Other House

A few months later her best friend, Flora, asked her to accompany to one of his “talks “ at the Center for Fiction. A talk of secrets of…

May 26

Excerpt from The Other House

May 26

Greg Gerke

Greg Gerke

Author of In the Suavity of the Rock (Splice), See What I See (Zerogram Press) and Especially the Bad Things (Splice) greggerke.com

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