The Opposite of Cruelty: A Conversation with Poet Steven Leyva on His New Collection

The Opposite of Cruelty: A Conversation with Poet Steven Leyva on His New Collection

Poet and scholar (and anime enthusiast) Steven Leyva believes we – the human “we” – have been malformed by cruelty in ways that make it hard to recognize the beauty that moves through our lives and through each other.

An editor has two successive moments to neatly reject a book: 1) the time when he hires it; 2) the time when he reads the book...

COMMENT: When do we do the right thing? Is it with punishment and firm reactions that young criminals and their backers can understand? Or are we contributing to the brutality becoming even more brutal then?