“Against Melancholy” by Nathan McClain (Poetry ’13)
Poetry alum Nathan McClain’s poem, “Against Melancholy,” was featured on The Slowdown.
Read an excerpt below.
Against Melancholy
by Nathan McClain
At first it is
Beethoven’s Ninth
I’m thinking of—
not all of it—mostly
the fourth movement,
that rousing crescendo
you might hear
at the end of a movie
Read the rest of the piece: Against Melancholy
