Aharon, a sandle maker, the younger brother of Thomas, left his home urged by his parents to search for his brother so as to return him to his family, and on his journey witnessed the Master cleansing the temple of lenders and thus became a zealot […]
Michael Gessner
Michael Gessner has authored 11 books of poetry and prose. From the most recent, (Selected Poems, FutureCycle Press, 2016,) The Poetry Foundation chose several for its online archives (2017). His latest publications include those in The American Journal of Poetry, Innisfree Poetry Journal, The Kenyon Review, New Oxford Review, North American Review, (finalist for 2016 James Hearst Prize,) and Verse Daily. His reviews appear regularly, and he is a voting member of the National Book Critics Circle.
Manifesto: On the Next Apocalypse
OURS is an age in which the transcultural mind is nearly consumed by the prospect of global warming, greenhouse gases, and the consequences of such warming on ocean levels and seacoast cities, the carbonization of our atmosphere and other devastating results of excessive pollution created by our species. It is our apocalypse. It has become […]