Mean Boy
“JIM SHOWS UP in class every week, comb ruts dug across his scalp. He introduces us to a new form called the ghazal, which is basically a series of unrhyming couplets, and shows us some very old Persian translations as well as a couple of modern examples by a poet named Jim Harrison, who is wonderful. I try to keep from getting too excited. It’s one of the loveliest forms I’ve seen. It’s muscular and vague all at once—Potent yet airy, says Jim. I like it so much I want it to be just mine. I don’...t ever want to write anything else. I have this childish urge to stand up in the middle of the class and insist that no one else be allowed to experiment with this form. Where does it come from, I wonder, that mean human desire to keep all the most beautiful things to yourself?
My immediate urge following Jim’s class is to run to Carl’s, order one of their bottomless pots of tea, and work on ghazals for the rest of the day—an urge I mercilessly squelch, forcing my feet in the direction of the library.MoreLess
My immediate urge following Jim’s class is to run to Carl’s, order one of their bottomless pots of tea, and work on ghazals for the rest of the day—an urge I mercilessly squelch, forcing my feet in the direction of the library.MoreLess
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