Steve Gehrke
Steve Gehrke is the recipient of a grant from the NEA, the Philip Levine Prize for Poetry, the John Ciardi Prize for Poetry and a Pushcart Prize. His books include The Resurrection Machine (BkMk Press, 2000), The Pyramids of Malpighi (Anhinga, 2004) and Michaelangelo’s Seizure (Illinois, 2007).
Reading List
Structuralism: Self Portrait with a Biography of Eugene O’Neill
“Then a horrible thought came to me. I was dead, of course, and death was nothing but a continuation of life as it had been when one left it. . . . This is what purgatory was–or was it hell …
Night: The Mayo Clinic
When they’ve seen the vision of their own bones corpsed with the creatures whorled into the stone, when they feel their bodies turning hieroglyphic in the cave, each ax-stroke echoing, internally, their own decay, do trapped miners still fidget in …
St. Ignatius on the Prison Ship to Rome
I am God’s wheat, and I am to be ground by the teeth of wild beasts, so that I may become the pure bread of Christ — Ignatius of Antioch, Letter to the Romans On those nights when the moon …