You can find his downloadable (pdf) essays here: Writing Worth Reading, at Coldtype.net
Tonight I found his piece on the extermination of the '60s and by association, The Enlightenment, Lafayette Park Blues
Excerpt: "America: When we first stepped onto this playground of the national soul together, I truly believed you were not a bully, that you were the protector of queers and thick-tongued immigrants and laboring spiritual hoboes like me. I have tossed down your dreams straight from the bottle with no chaser, then bought a round for the house, because this is the goddam land of the free where even a redneck boy from Virginia can dream the dreams of bards, call himself a writer then walk away from dark ancestral ghosts to actually become one.
I believed it all, America. And I still fall for it if I let my guard down. Just like the abused wife who believes she will not be punched again for that thousand and first time ..."
Barkeep! Another round for the house.
