On Elderly Poets (and Love) by Alex Epstein At the age of seventy-seven, after another stroke, he wrote his wife a poem he could not remember if he had already written when he was thirty. Either way, love is merely a crease in the present time. All rights reserved by the author. Illustration © 2012 by David Polonsky. Translated by Jessica Cohen. This week, Recommended Reading is publishing one micro-fiction by Alex Epstein a day, each with an illustration by David Polonsky. For more, click here.  Find more by Recommended Reading authors at WORD, our partner bookseller.

On Elderly Poets (and Love)

by Alex Epstein


At the age of seventy-seven, after another stroke, he wrote his wife a poem he could not remember if he had already written when he was thirty. Either way, love is merely a crease in the present time.


All rights reserved by the author. Illustration © 2012 by David Polonsky. Translated by Jessica Cohen.


This week, Recommended Reading is publishing one micro-fiction by Alex Epstein a day, each with an illustration by David Polonsky. For more, click here.


 Find more by Recommended Reading authors at WORD, our partner bookseller.