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Sy Safransky

Sy Safransky is the founder and editor emeritus of The Sun. He lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

Poetry

Carpenter

July 1974

Poetry

Untitled

The gas tank is leaking

July 1974

Poetry

the way traveled

July 1974

Editor’s Note

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June 1974

Poetry

Selected Poems

June 1974

Essays, Memoirs & True Stories

Sy’s New York Diary

The city so easy, after all, alive for me like some lover never truly left behind, never truly known: the perfumes, the hidden places, the exquisite fears and sweet temptations of the night.

June 1974

Essays, Memoirs & True Stories

Sweet Suicide

Confuse love and romance too long and you end up a suicide. Aloneness is the final, undeniable reality of life.

June 1974

Essays, Memoirs & True Stories

What Shall God Fear?

I have wanted you, wanted you, out of what? love? need? true love is not possessive, jealousy is a learned response, but oh god, how to let go? how to love you, not own you, how to let you be?

June 1974

Editor’s Note