Hagoth favors essays that can trace their lineage back to Michel de Montaigne; whether narrative, analytical, or devotional, these essays lean ruminative, conversational, meandering, impressionistic, and are reluctant to wax didactic. But that doesn’t mean you won’t find the occasional poem or piece of fiction here as well.
What do you do after Calvin and Hobbes?
A visual re-visitation of the landmark comic strip, on the occasion of the release of “The Mysteries” by Bill Watterson and John Kascht.
Stand-out track from their 2008 album “Attack and Release.”
How a slick-yet-silly action franchise finally became a metaphor for Christ.
Hoping the end will start it all again
With apologies to Goldsmith and William Carlos Williams.
On finding the divine in the ordinary.
Efficiency and progress is ours once more
There are days when I consider the very real possibility that I don’t actually enjoy poetry, that I only muscle through it all out of some misbegotten sense of English majory duty.
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