Tag Archives: Tom Auer

Okay, I’m the world’s worst blogger.

Posted on December 29, 2012 by David M. Perkins

You would be too, if you were surrounded by editors as talented as those who surround me! It’s intimidating. But I am a half-way decent writer—and a damned good volunteer. I am determined to make this New Year a more … Continue reading →

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We have plans. Help us “Make it New.”

Posted on December 11, 2012 by David M. Perkins

Ezra Pound’s famous charge, to “Make it New,” changed literary history. “Pound’s aspirations for literature were grand. He believed that bad writing destroyed civilizations and that good writing could save them … he thought that literature could enhance the appreciation … Continue reading →

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A Selfish Rectification

Posted on May 21, 2012 by David M. Perkins

Long before I became a volunteer here, many years ago when my East Coast publishing career was still alive, and at an (even more) addled time when I actually believed I had the potential to become an adequate writer (perhaps), … Continue reading →

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Dalva by Jim Harrison

Posted on May 18, 2012 by David M. Perkins

Posted in General, Reviews | Tagged book review, Dalva, Farmer, Home Again, Jim Harrison, overlooked classics, Paul Kafka, Paul Kafka-Gibbons, Sundog, The Bloomsbury Review, The Guardian, Tom Auer, Tom Cox | Leave a comment

“No other word will do. For that’s what it was. Gravy.”

Posted on April 18, 2012 by David M. Perkins

The line is from “Gravy,” a poem by Raymond Carver that still hangs over the desk Tom had to finally abandon on April 18, 2003, at age 50—at the same age Carver had to abandon his. Much too young for … Continue reading →

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