The Wings of Atalanta
September 2, 2020
My book proceeds from two premises. The first is that America is an imaginary place with real people living in it (to adapt a line from Marianne Moore’s “Poetry”). Such… READ MORE
Tag: Mark Richardson
The Wings of Atalanta: Essays Written along the Color Line
June 25, 2019
You may enter South Carolina by many routes. Sail into Charleston Harbor and you pass Fort Sumter, where the Civil War began, and Sullivan’s Island, where forty-percent of the Africans… READ MORE
The Great Vogue for the Guitar in Western Europe, 1800-1840