Lawrence Joseph

I will have writings written all over it    in human words: wrote Blake. A running form, Pound’s Blake: shouting, whirling    his arms, his eyes rolling, whirling like flaming cartwheels. Put it this way, in this language:    a blow in the small of the back from a rifle butt, the crack of a blackjack on a skull, face    beaten...

Its geography similar to Istanbul’s – read for Lake Huron, the Black Sea, for the St Clair River, the Bosporus, for Lake St Clair, the Sea of Marmara, for the Detroit River, the Dardanelles, and for Lake Erie, the Mediterranean – a natural place for Ford and Olds to open factories, strategically tangential to the Pittsburgh steel mills, Akron rubber plants, the Mesabi iron...