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Jean Farley

Book Reviews

Autumn/ November 1968

The Body

By Jean Farley

The Body by Michael Benedikt. Wesleyan University Press, $4.00 (cloth), $2.00 (paper). Most of the poems in Michael Benedikt’s volume, The Body, move and sport and have their being in […]

Poetry

Spring 1966

Gregorius in Insula

By Jean Farley

The gulls of nesting seasonHave left, leaving on rocks aboveTheir bits of shell,White as a crust of saltBelow at the sea—and, midway, IAm one white tatter, caught. The waves upon […]

Poetry

Spring 1966

Nguyen van troi

By Jean Farley

A very young man among many, quite thin,In loose white pants and shirt:Soldiers hold him straight to the center of the field,Tie his elbows behind his back,Include the pole with […]

Poetry

Autumn/ November 1967

Night Riders

By Jean Farley

The massive trembling of late dusk air Has drawn me from my house on this low hill: A line of helicopters droning south Rides one by one on the dark […]