“Trying to nail down the source of the intensity of my response, I kept coming back to a sense of a deep, existential nostalgia for what I could only think of as integrity.”
Author: Michael Boughn
Mythos Americanos: Who Took the Grit out of Integrity?
A Fresh Look at André Spears’ “From the Lost Land I-XII”
“And it is all held together in an irrepressible delight in language and what happens when language and imagination are unleashed and told to have a good time.”
Lost in the Woods

“Lost in the Woods is a symptom/of heart’s sudden loss/of direction registered in small/persistent cramps and little gasps.”