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Don Bogen

Book Reviews

Summer 1998

Isn’t It Romantic?

By Don Bogen

Sun Under Wood by Robert Hass. Hopewell, NJ: Ecco, 1996. 96 pages. $22.00, cloth. One clue that we have not yet entered the postindustrial era is in our poetry: Romanticism—that […]

Poetry

Winter 1983

The Last Installment

By Don Bogen

Remember our lamp, its frowzy Victorian hat of a shade? Nights in that drafty stained-glass parlor I’d read aloud in the fringed glow while you sewed. We might have been […]

Poetry

Winter 1983

Net

By Don Bogen

When they step out from apartments facing the park a little awning goes a ways with them. Carpet massages their soles. A uniform stands ready to call them a cab. […]