Book Reviews
Summer 1946
Poor Teaming
An Anthology of Famous English and American Poems edited by William Rose Benet and Conrad Aiken. The Modern Library. $1.45 This is a good example of split-personality editing. The English […]
Younger Poets
Autumn 1941
Waterwall Blues
I gnarled me where the spinster treeUnwound its green hosannaAnd built its sorrow leaf by knee,A lachrymal cabana. The self same night I cracked my cowl,Unwound myself with Anna:Speech by […]
Book Reviews
Spring 1966
All Praise
Questions of Travel by Elizabeth Bishop. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $3.95. Since the nineteenth century, three versions of the poet as dreamer have become discernible: a person idyllically free of […]
Book Reviews
Summer 1963
Make It Vague
The Age Suspicion by Nathalie Sarraute. Translated by Maria Jolas. George Braziller, $4.00. Nathalie Sarraute is the chief critical intelligence of the nouveau roman or l’anti roman or “anti-novel novel” […]
Poetry
Winter 1963
The Cricket
There was a day when Swifter the world turned, Matting the Queen Anne’s Lace on the hill, and The fern and its thin root Lifted a long beard Like a […]
Poetry
Spring 1950
Around the Fish 2: After Paul Klee
What did the tom-tom whisper, Or the Christmas candy dance? The falling rain became the brain And the fish’s eye a glance. Does the tumbler on the left contain The […]
Poetry
Spring 1950
A Street with Children
Winter has buried autumn, and the cries Of children, children on the long blue streets Fade up into the skies. The telephone wires, Manuscripts of music where the sparrows sit, […]
Poetry
Summer 1947
Tears
Not as the summer left, all leaves, These tears are natural; but unearthly, Troubled as secrets, or superficial Moonlight that erases dark. Who can tell, who can tell Why they […]
Poetry
Summer 1947
September Song
When the bandage fell from the assisted tree I thought of those whom I had truly loved. After September’s withering remark Raced the bloody mineral in the dark, After the […]
Book Reviews
Spring 1947
Ten Poets
Selected Writings Of Dylan Thomas. Introduction by John L. Sweeney. New Directions. $3.50. Lord Weary’s Castle by Robert Lowell. Harcourt. $2.50. A Man In The Divided Sea by Thomas Merton. […]