Gary Hardaway was born October 24, 1950 and has earned his living as an architect and urban planner. He lives with his wife, Joan Reese, in Plano, Texas. He developed a taste for reading poetry at 16 and began to write at 17. He admires the poems of T. S. Eliot, Wallace Stevens, Seamus Heaney, Phillip Larkin, and Mark Strand but especially values the work of Elizabeth Bishop.
THE SWIFT REPORT 2023
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I am writing this post without much enthusiasm, but with a sense of duty.
This blog will be 20 years old soon, and though I rarely post here anymore,
I owe...
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Reading Peter Schjeldahl Peter Schjeldahl builds paragraphs. Possibly no
other critic now writing in English has such a strong sense of what that
unit of...
Are Rappers . . . Secret Oulipians?
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As it's been getting darker and colder over the last few weeks, and the
whole premise of leaving the house looks like a scam designed to entrap the
dimmest...
… & Elizabeth Jane Howard
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I am currently reading the novels of Elizabeth Jane Howard, one after
another, on the advice of Hilary Mantel in the Guardian – she has written
the introdu...
My choice cuts from Edinburgh Fringe
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Just back from Edinburgh, where I saw 20 shows in 5 days. OK, 19. We were 2
minutes late for one, and missed out. Two of the shows were at the Book
Festiva...
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