Nonfiction
Spring 1983
Imagining Human Action
The long narrative poem has two particularly rich devices for exhibiting the significance of human action, the use of extended analogies (in the form of allegory or simile) and the […]
Contemporary American Poetry
Summer 1982
The Dissolution of the Rainbow
By an extraordinary combination of circumstances, the theory of colors has been drawn into the province and before the tribunal of the mathematician, a tribunal to which it cannot be […]
Contemporary American Poetry
Summer 1982
Marathon
Across the green which lifts and falls like ocean, like St Mark's mosaic floor whose gilded earth the sea buckles and swells, turning on Venice that same supple force she […]
Poetry
Spring 1981
Reflections on the Transfinite
Reading about the tower or great-boled tree of ordinals, I think how Cantor grew more wise and more insane, trying to save his tree of Jesse from the pruning shears […]