Poetry
Winter 1956
Stanzas to Be Placed under Fouquet’s Madonna
With Gallic understanding and the lead France always shows to straightened English minds—For Donne and Crashaw took good time to read Christ’s passion into lovers and their need—Fouquet seduces converts […]
Poetry
Winter 1956
Pygmalion
I find most women like the Cyprian maid Before her skin had metamorphosed from Ivory into flesh, before the numb Hardness of her lips had soft repaid Soft lips, before […]
Poetry
Winter 1956
Ontology for Beginners
Bright striped urchins flay each other with sand. They have contrived a conquest for shell shucks . . . . . —Hart Crane The daughter is wed to the delighted […]