Conrad DiDiodatoOct 10, 20201 minConsolatio"You were always right, and your holiest inspiration/is Death" (Rilke) --------- (for Danny Frederick) Even with all the sighing and...
Conrad DiDiodatoOct 9, 20208 min"Corn: From Anatomy to Poetics" by Giorgio AgambenIt's not often an essay can impress by the qualities alone of form, scholarly virtuosity and elegance but Giorgio Agamben's "Corn: From...
Conrad DiDiodatoOct 9, 20201 minFrom my zero-gravity chaira garden! where any American friend and curly tree, spaced between the clouds and wind, would love to be The rabbit known by scent and...
Conrad DiDiodatoOct 9, 20201 minOde to Narouz*A poem inspired by Lawrence Durrell's The Alexandria Quartet. A work remarkable if only for its masterly portrayal of the imagination's...
Conrad DiDiodatoOct 9, 20201 minAdele(for Filomena) To every sage Adele and every allotted share of bust and marbre and sparkly hair I've ever seen her like possess, and...
Conrad DiDiodatoOct 9, 20201 minThe Catman of Aleppo (6): for Bob"couldn't you see with my eye and simply not say it's surely not worth the trouble to love much --"the wind blows where it listeth"-- ...
Conrad DiDiodatoOct 9, 20201 minFerris ParkLook, if Spring pressing on and on is real and very matutinal, (as in the sense of, say,some god named Aton and a scalding leaf), I see...
Conrad DiDiodatoOct 9, 20201 minHans Arp sitting in a chairAlone he looks like a weasly disjointed memory. Hans is old, sinewy like the hand he prises day from, resting just there— & he’s worth...
Conrad DiDiodatoOct 9, 20201 minSister("Wish upon a star if that might help") (for RD) So, dialectically is the One there a real browning star, rough-edged, or just Two ...
Conrad DiDiodatoOct 9, 20201 minNickyThe one I passed by like autumn breeze is a mightily white wing of a butterfly on its dusty, dusty way I passed by and-oh,...
Conrad DiDiodatoOct 9, 20201 minGage ParkI discovered a few years back that the grounds of Gage Park in my hometown sadly conceal hundreds of unmarked graves that still remain,...
Conrad DiDiodatoJun 14, 20197 minA Review of "The Ancients and the Postmoderns: On the Historicity of Forms"