A Sufi Mullah will kick your ass down five flights of stairs.
You tie me up and I break free furiously, opening out into sky, round and bright, candlepoint, all reason and love.
You gave me this bone-bursting joy at sixes and sevens. You stuck me with this hangover.
I turn when you turn to look. Somehow I’m saying this wrong.
I’m some nutcase in jail, tying up spirit-women.
I’m Solomon. I’m lame.
I'm professor of English and director of first-year writing at the University of Mississippi. I've written books on composition theory, language theory, translation theory, and literary theory, and my first novel came out recently in Finnish translation. Svetlana Ilinskaya and I are currently developing a writing textbook entitled "Writing as Drama" for McGraw-Hill.
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