• Forest for the Trees
  • THE FOREST FOR THE TREES is about writing, publishing and what makes writers tick. This blog is dedicated to the self loathing that afflicts most writers. A community of like-minded malcontents gather here. I post less frequently now, but hopefully with as much vitriol. Please join in! Gluttons for punishment can scroll through the archives.

    If I’ve learned one thing about writers, it’s this: we really are all alone. Thanks for reading. Love, Betsy

Acquainted with the Night

If you have a chance, read David Orr’s superb reckoning with Frederick Seidel’s poetry in today’s NYTBR. I’m still struggling with the rhyme “china vagina.” But, hey, that’s just me. Though I was happily reminded of a guy in my grad school workshop who rhymed Milton Berle with squirrel.

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