Fiction
Winter 1965
The Still Sea
When one sleeps in a house by the see, one’s window open to the sea, the crashing and rolling and gasping and sighing come in, right into the room, on […]
Nonfiction
Spring 1964
An Evening with Verena
This sad afternoon there was neither rain nor shine, nor honest fog, nor a decent scudding and scurrying of clouds, but a gray neutrality of all, an eventless sky that […]
Fiction
Summer 1962
Someone with Whom to Converse
All that summer I looked down through the flying keys of my typewriter onto a terrace where a small boy was playing. In fact, the terrace had no business to […]
Department KR: A Section of Briefer Comment
Autumn 1961
Reply
It is a pity that Mr. Sutherland could not have paid more attention to my argument and less to my style. To all but his last paragraph I can only […]
Nonfiction
Summer 1961
Reflections on a Great Stone Face: The Achievement of Gertrude Stein
This is not an attempt at a reasoned consideration of the whole of the works of Gertrude Stein: I have not read them. To lay my qualifications on the table, […]
Poetry
Spring 1961
To Madame Lullin (From the French of Voltaire)
Ah madam, will you mock and pout That dry in limb and soft in brain My poor old Muse should stump about And tremble into verse again? Know that at […]
Poetry
Spring 1961
The Rage of the Water against Hastings
Wide and wild, rounding earth’s corners ever, Knitting my hammock strung from pole to pole,I notice little, concerned with my own tides; But have observed Hastings and will her destroy. […]
Poetry
Spring 1960
The Early Drowned
Great while I lay at mercy of the sea, Taken by cramp and pitched upon a spur: The knocking of the waves might rise or fall, It mattered not at […]
Poetry
Spring 1960
Take a Girl
take a girl and take her home take her home and take her in take her in your arms your arms your arms and there your troubles begin she touches […]