May 5, 2011

WHAT TO READ WHILE ONE'S COMMERCIAL STUDENTS TAKEN THEIR FINAL EXAMINATION

Christopher Benfey, ed., Stephen Crane: Complete Poems (American Poets Project) (New York: Library of America, 2011).

There was a man who lived a life of fire.
Even upon the fabric of time,
Where purple becomes orange
And orange purple,
This life glowed,
A dire red stain, indelible;
Yet when he was dead,
He saw that he had not lived.

Id. at 65.