Nihilism: Eugene O’Neill at Sea

Steve Gehrke won the Philip Levine Prize for his second book, The Pyramids of Malpighi, published by Anhinga Press. His poetry has been published in The Yale Review, Slate, AGNI, The Threepenny Review, Southern Review, The Iowa Review, VQR, and elsewhere. He’s a PhD student at the University of Missouri and poetry editor of The Missouri Review. (updated 2005)