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David Galler

Book Reviews

Winter 1967

Description as Poetry

By David Galler

Death Of A Naturalist by Seamus Heaney. Oxford University Press, $3.75. Fox On A Barn Door by Ted Walker. George Braziller, $3.95. The Rescued Year by William Stafford. Harper and […]

Poetry

Spring 1963

Along the Volcano

By David Galler

For Klaus Fluegge  Liking to dream the mountain lives, We suspect that, whether it has or not The past five hundred years, will have Or not in double that to […]

Poetry

Autumn 1964

Cinderella

By David Galler

About that child: magic Wouldn't have helped, had she Been, by nature, a beauty, Even ugly. Remember Your toad, slammed on tiles By princess he wished, who rose Unfortunate prince. […]

Book Reviews

Summer 1964

Versions of Accident

By David Galler

The Moving Target by W. S. Merwin. Atheneum Publishers. $3.95; paper, $1.95. Helmets by James Dickey. Wesleyan University Press. $4.00; paper, $1.85. What many contemporary poets have learned from the […]