Andrew Ladd is the book reviews editor for the Ploughshares blog. His work has also appeared or is forthcoming in Apalachee Review, Alternet, PANK's "This Modern Writer" series, DRAFT Magazine and the Good Men Project. He is putting the finishing touches on his first novel.
The alchemy of desire is much harder to master, its falls more tragic. And yet our language for it is maddeningly woolly. The great poets have striven for clarity here but most of us are doomed