Poetry
Spring 1997
Movietime
They can't wait. ("We couldn't wait," they'll say.) And that's not the only thing the lovers can't do. They seem unable to get their clothes off in time, or to […]
Contemporary American Poetry
Summer 1982
In Old San Juan
l've come to visit Doña Trina,to pay respects and receive my blessing.At the kitchen table under the great clockwhere an elegy is always ticking,this is me sitting mute in the […]
Contemporary American Poetry
Summer 1982
A Crone’s Tale
for Françoise Krampf Tell you of the witch? Well, so I will, child, as well as ever I remember the story. Now the witch was an ordinary girl and not […]
Poetry
Spring 1981
They
Adam alone had been Adam unknown, shadowless under the sun, lost in shadow under the moon, lost in thought that thought all things and found their names, and yet could […]
Poetry
Summer 1979
Ever After
Do I repeat myself? Very well then I repeat myself. The beginning was all a puzzlement: the small mouth in the sand, its dark trickle, pain she wanted to run […]
Book Reviews
Winter 1962
The Shtetl World
The Spinoza Of Market Street by Isaac Bashevis Singer. Farrar, Straus and Cudahy. $3.95. In a time largely given over to drudging realism and factitious symbolism, to the jaunty laconic […]
Poetry
Spring 1961
Arabian Night
(The crow, after many adventures, returns to the Ark on Ararat.) I should know this place, these women talking here Between a dinner and the common goodnight, Know their stories […]
Poetry
Spring 1961
Summer Game
Higher into the half-light, —While the children flow out Of their shadows and the twilight And, soaring and sinking, shout To follow upward what they have sailed Higher and slowly […]
Poetry
Winter 1960
Goya
I. Man The soldiers bear a sack, A white sack without a tear; The soldiers are in black. For the rest, the plain is bare. And what else should be […]
Poetry
Winter 1959
Works and Days
My name is laughter, and I laughedKnowing everything’s absurd. For God in his ironic craft Made all more and less than his word. And the fool world dances on the […]
Book Reviews
Spring 1957
Pierrot Unearthed
Selected Writings Of Jules Laforgue, edited and translated by William Jay Smith. Grove Press. $4.00. Only lately has Jules Laforgue begun to emerge from the half century’s subterranean existence he […]