Michael Symmons Roberts: Dream songs of faith, doubt and the God of rescue

In a recent poem the US poet Mark Doty sees an apparition “in the window/ of the Eros Diner, corner/ of 21st Street”. The ghost is a bespectacled figure, heavy-bearded, eating alone. In the poem Doty swears the apparition is … Continue reading Michael Symmons Roberts: Dream songs of faith, doubt and the God of rescue