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Greg Gerke

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

Creative Disturbance

There is something that has left me perturbed. Merleau-Ponty, a phenomenologist, says the imagination is weak and perception is strong…

May 29

Creative Disturbance

May 29

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

Cézanne in Philadelphia and Everywhere Else

I imagine there is a mildly correct way to be an art critic, to get caught up in dates and purchases to some degree, and then throw that…

May 12

Cézanne in Philadelphia and Everywhere Else

May 12

My Bushwick Writer Friend, Elizabeth Bishop, and Me

My Bushwick writer friend upbraided me in “public,” telling on me, telling how I liked subjective writers — I thought that was my secret…

May 8

My Bushwick Writer Friend, Elizabeth Bishop, and Me

May 8

Excerpt from The Other House

Apr 10

Excerpt from The Other House

Apr 10

Spain, Madrid, Prado, Goya…

Is the sublime aesthetic experience still possible when over fifty? How could I ever doubt it? Just a few weeks ago, I spoke to a writer…

Apr 4

Spain, Madrid, Prado, Goya…

Apr 4

Excerpt from The Other House

When I write about these things I don’t just feel in control — I am in control. I believe this is why people write fiction — or so I…

Mar 27

Excerpt from The Other House

Mar 27

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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