Nonfiction
Winter 1964
A Symposium on W. H. Auden’s “A Change of Air”
A Change of Air Corns, heartburn, sinus headaches, such minor ailments Tell of estrangement between your name and you, Suggest a change of air: heed them, but let The modesty […]
Department KR: A Section of Briefer Comment
Spring 1963
From “The Bourgeois Poet”
Not at all my favorite author, Kipling described Chicago once: the water is the water of the Hooghly, and the air is dirt. And a famous poet of New England […]
Poetry
Summer 1945
Essay on Rime: Confusion of Personal Systems (From Part III)
By nineteen twenty the thin ice of beliefHad cracked and given way. The figure-skaterOf rime had sunk beneath the lake, and artTook on a deep and submarine aspect.The corpse, the […]