Unpublished

Most of the works listed here will be included in the upcoming collection The Tightrope Dancer and Other Selected Poems and Essays from the Archives of L. G. Hertz to be published in 2025.

Poetry

The Tightrope Dancer

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Nature Abhors an Encore

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Shape Wars

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A Stick Is a Companion

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Roman Numerals

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Silo

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Keeping a Promise Never Made

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Essays

The Origin of Langrage (No, Not Language)

A Lost Libretto of Osip Mandelshtam

Mandelshtam’s Vertical Lake

A bullet • beside the title indicates that the poem is supplemented by background notes for students of English.