Poetry
Autumn 1940
Death by Rarity
I fear, I fear the rarity Of night hawk, swift, ruby throat; I fear extinct The roseate spoonbill and snowy egret slain By no known enemy, Slain by no known […]
Poetry
Autumn 1940
Earth’s History
The sweet pea once opened Does not close its fragile heart again, Of the invader space it is victim Like a city besieged by heartless men. A trivial note, a […]
Book Reviews
Summer 1948
Tiger Lilies
Other Voices, Other Rooms by Truman Capote. Random House. $2.75 The large number of novels, even when well written, bear no qualifications of individuality. Except as to subject matter, […]
Book Reviews
Winter 1947
Metaphysical Fiction
The Member Of The Wedding by Carson McCullers. Houghton Mifflin. $2.50 Carson McCullers’ The Member of the Wedding, astutely and frugally designed, is a deceptive piece of writing, and its […]
Younger Poets
Winter 1945
Of Deed, Love, Death
The soul dividing like an annalid Suggests a remorseless possibility — For our inclination is always the business unfinished, The evening star’s rising above the evening star’s zenith distance, A […]
Book Reviews
Winter 1945
Fictions Mystical and Epical
A Haunted House by Virginia Woolf. Harcourt, Brace. $2.00. The Leaning Tower by Katherine Anne Porter. Harcourt, Brace. $2.50. A haunted house by Virginia Woolf is a beautiful collection, […]
Book Reviews
Autumn 1944
The Dusty Interiors of Boston
Boston Adventure by Jean Stafford. Harcourt. $2.50. This is a provocative, this is a delightful novel—the biography of a servant girl from the underworld of Dantesque infernos and her commentary […]
Fiction
Winter 1944
Old James
Old James would sit at his desk in the twilight. He would wear his hat, but that was no sign he noticed the hour, that the sun had already gone […]
New Verse by Brave Poets
Autumn 1942
Moderate Fable
In seasons of doubt, in seasons sceptic of love Yet here did seven bridegrooms softly come Each with translucent bone and glistening spittle To claim the daughter of God, as […]
New Verse by Brave Poets
Autumn 1942
A Crystal Principle
From crucial elements, as light, water, fire, air, Is crystal evolved by the slow dazzle of beads Cloudless twin moons in true curve, God’s tears And only tear, as the […]
Two Poems
Summer 1941
The Pattern
Now the rain crow’s crying, now the rose petal falls, And these are two separate pursuits to the end As now the rain crow’s crying, as now the rose Loosens […]
Two Poems
Summer 1941
Summer Day
Now the white heron streams in pallid motion Shapeless as snow to this earth’s eye, But he in the bright gold light beaming Is motion made all probable. Earth turns, […]