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Toward a Commonplace Book
Late last year I mentioned Max Brod’s biography of Heine. Today, hoping against hope to get my desk cleared off, I ran across it in a stack of books set aside for reshelving. But there were all these little post-it notes sticking out, making the book look like a tattered flag. I had meant to write something coherent about it, but since I have so much work in front of me I’d better settle for passing along the quotes I’ve marked.Read More
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The Stuff By Which We Live
Harry (Heinrich) Heine A quote here from Max Brod‘s biography of Harry (better known as Heinrich) Heine, Heine: The Artist in Revolt. It has about it the very strangeness that makes Heine, for me, more rewarding to read than the currently influential Friedrich Hölderlin: Now that I come to discuss [Heine’s] masterpieces it is no more than fitting that I should make due acknowledgment of the way in which he trampled over every inner and outer barrier and crushed all difficulties.Read More
Joseph Hutchison, Colorado Poet Laureate 2014-2019, has published 20 collections of poems and edited or co-edited three poetry anthologies. He currently directs two master’s-level programs for University College at the University of Denver: Professional Creative Writing and Arts & Culture Management. Joe lives with his wife, Melody Madonna, in the mountains southwest of Denver, Colorado, the city where he was born. 
