Eric Wertheimer is Professor of English and American Studies at Arizona State University. He is the author of Underwriting: The Poetics of Insurance in Early America, and Imagined Empires: Incas, Aztecs, and the New World of American Literature, 1771-1876. He has published poetry in Exquisite Corpse, Perihelion, Diagram, Shampoo, Adirondack Review, Muse Apprentice Guild, among other journals. His book of poetry, Mylar, was published by blazeVOX Press in 2012.
There are gobbets glimmering on the windshield not rain. I divide the pecan forest, the neglected wonderground, […]