Nonfiction
Autumn 1979
Aristotle and the Advertisers: The Television Commercial Considered as a Form of Drama
We have all seen it a hundred times, and in dozens of variations: that short sequence of images in which a husband expresses disappointment and distress at his wife’s inability […]
Comment
Autumn 1960
The Absurdity of the Absurd
A Note on Ward Hooker’s essay on “Irony and Absurdity in the Avant-Garde Theatre.” (Kenyon Review, Summer, 1960.) Mr. Ward Hooker’s essay contains some penetrating observations on the comic element […]
Poetry
Spring 1982
Language, You Wretch
From the Austrian. Language, you wretch ulcerous cancer, you, upon yourself, death-rattling exhaust world-distorter, repulsive teenagers' dream of trembling brain-puddings, deaf and blind you stumble crutch upon mouldering crutch across […]