The Opposable Thumb at the End of the Imagination
Literary intellectuals investigate the power imagination gives us to pose unending questions about our world—viewing religion, philosophy, and science as literary genres full of metaphors.
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Henry David Thoreau
On the Something There Is
Poets, like pragmatists, possess a unique ability to sit with uncertainties and doubts. For them, neither walls nor metaphors are ever complete.
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Alone in One of Nature’s Threshold Places
The most fortifying experiences in nature are often found in lonely, transitional zones. But what is the reality of these threshold places?
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