Back in 1983 I wrote a piece titled "Fantasia on Kierkegaard and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" that Laurence Goldstein published in the Spring 1984 issue of Michigan Quarterly Review. Wonder of wonders, it is on the Internet, this effort to "conjecture, or 'make book,'" on what the Danish philosopher would have made of the great medieval romance.
https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/mqrarchive/act2080.0023.002/00000129
and here's my poem of the day, May 26, 1999:
In Rotterdam I'm
going to speak about
the state of poetry
on a panel with a Pole
and a Turk. It's worth
being alive to utter
that sentence. A
German from Fürth,
my father's home town
and Henry Kissinger's,
will preside. His name
is Joachim Sartorius,
which sounds like a
pseudonym Kierkegaard
might use to condemn
the habits of his age
and ours when nothing
ever happens but the
publicity is immediate
and the town meeting
ends with the people
convinced they have
rebelled so now they
can go home quietly
having spent a most
pleasant evening
-- from The Evening Sun (2002)
and from an interview with Ace Boggess in The Adirondack Review (2020)
AB: Finally, an issue you writers face is doubt, both in themselves and their work. You’ve had a long and successful career so far. In spite of that, what doubts stick with you, and how have you adapted to them over the years?
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