This is Tyler Malone's magnum opus: nearly 12K words on Robert Frost. "Those who read Frost’s poetry deeply enough to see through the caricature of the simple farmer-poet espousing country wisdom see his dualities and contradictions emerge." poetryfoundation.org/articles/16166…

I wrote a behemoth on Frost for Poetry Foundation: "He understands as much the mud-soft spaces in the human heart, wet at the firm touch of a workman’s boot, as he does the impenetrable darkness that sits between the stars and mocks people like a mongrel maw." poetryfoundation.org/articles/16166…

I wrote about Dante Gabriel Rossetti for the January issue First Things: "What nature was for Wordsworth, the beloved's face was for Rossetti: magic mirror, longed-for landscape, book of revelation. The ultimate object of contemplation, inexhaustible." firstthings.com/article/2023/1…

"Those who read Frost's poetry deeply enough to see through the caricature ... begin to see him as both authentic Yankee sage and contrived farmer-poser ... as demystifier and remystifier of an unruly universe, whose design—if there is one—seems dark, muddled, and mysterious."

Robert Frost was both authentic Yankee sage and contrived farmer-poser, Romantic and Modernist, believer and skeptic, innovator and nostalgist, liberal and conservative, stoic and humorist, demystifier and remystifier of an unruly universe. —Tyler Malone bit.ly/3TkJb57

For The New York Times, I wrote about Vladimir Sorokin’s BLUE LARD. nytimes.com/2024/02/25/boo…

For The Nation, I wrote about Mathias Énard's THE ANNUAL BANQUET OF THE GRAVEDIGGERS' GUILD. thenation.com/article/cultur…

"Poets—certainly the Modernists, but, also, *all* poets—are the monarchs of desert lands, with fragments shored against their ruins. Poets build their poetry not only from all they have done but also from all they have read." —Tyler Malone (Tyler Malone)

Source: this wonderful long essay on Robert Frost poetryfoundation.org/articles/16166…

Ezra Pound's "Canto I": still one of the few flawless openings in English poetry. A perfect marriage of sound and sense and sensibility. Dramatic and narratively gripping, too.

Since we've now entered upon the cruelest month, I have to plug this Poetry Foundation poem guide to "The Waste Land" by the estimable Tyler Malone. "What is this chaos of impressions we are privy to? Wherefore such madness?" poetryfoundation.org/articles/15884…

"For a poem about the brevity of every state of being, the single octave perfectly enacts its themes through its form." —Tyler Malone in our new poem guide, "Felix Culpa-bility: Robert Frost’s 'Nothing Gold Can Stay'" bit.ly/4cZxSpt

I wrote about Megalopolis as World War III's Showgirls: lithub.com/francis-ford-c…

.Tyler Malone on why Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis is a new generation’s Showgirls. lithub.com/francis-ford-c…

I wrote about horror and humor for Literary Hub, continuing my Halloween horror essays for the 9th year in a row. "When we laugh, the body admits what the brain cannot." lithub.com/why-horror-nee…

What does horror need? According to Tyler Malone, it’s humor: “Laughing villains act as tricksters and jesters who mock us by holding a mirror up to society.” lithub.com/why-horror-nee…

"A BODY IS NOT AN IDENTITY" I wrote about Body Horror for Lit Hub: lithub.com/corporeal-puni…