theparisreview.org/blog/2026/10/16/geoffrey-g-obrien-joshua-clover-making-poem Making of a Poem: Geoffrey G. O’Brien on “Ray of Light”
A poet got a call at seven in the morning that his friend of thirty years had died, and sat down to write a poem within hours. Geoffrey G. O'Brien explains how "Left," the first word of his elegy for Joshua Clover, carries a stance, a death, and a secret message its subject will never read.
— via The Paris Review, Geoffrey G. O’Brien
