Four Poems
Autumn 1983
Dying Boy by Artificial Lake
He lay on his bed of August, hearing the motorboats roar in and out of his fever. His mother stared from the door. The flowers were full of light. He […]
Four Poems
Autumn 1983
The Ram’s Story
The shepherd who cut me out of my dead dam Bore me among the rocks and at a spring Washed off the tell-tale blood, then left the lamb To gambol […]
Four Poems
Autumn 1983
The Passing Fancy Man
Impressive is the word for him, smarter than a husband, a visiting professor of life, urbane, conjectured to be good in bed. Younger than many, he is ruefully experienced; on […]
Four Poems
Autumn 1983
Charles Darwin on Music
[Music] arouses dormant sentiments of which we had not conceived the possibility, and do not know the meaning; or, as Richter says, tells us of things we have not seen […]
Nonfiction
Autumn 1983
Morality, Poetry, and Criticism
Despite the common recognition in recent years that literary criticism is in some significant ways a philosophical inquiry, discussion of literature and morality make most contemporary critics squirm in their […]