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Poetry

Autumn 1992

Occupations

By Richard Howard

Of course we’re still using the old stationery—who can find paper these days?—but as you see, the lettering outside has already been changed, and to all intents and purposes this […]

Poetry

Spring 1991

For Matthew Ward, 1951-1990

By Richard Howard

   who stipulated that I speak, at a memorial    service, of his “professional development,”    halted by AIDS. Out of that doorway, on a Soho street where I had no reason for […]

Poetry

Winter 1990

Theory of Flight: 1908

By Richard Howard

for Barry Weller  Dear Gertrude, I was intrigued to meet Leo's new friend—we read, of course,  his fantastic farrago about our Matisse in this year's Salon,  and though such comparisons […]

Book Reviews

Winter 1970

Some First Volumes

By Richard Howard

Firstborn by Louise Gliuck. New American Library, $4.00. The Storm & Other Poems by William Pitt Root. Atheneum Publishers, $4.95. Sweating Out the Winter by David P. Young. University of […]

Poetry

Autumn/ November 1969

Leopardi

By Richard Howard

    The palace at Recanati, crowned with merlons       and adorned with a bronze clock     boasts the remains of a Palladian fountain.       The piano nobile     houses a library of twelve thousand volumes. […]

Book Reviews

Autumn/ September 1968

Joyful Body

By Richard Howard

Stand Up, Friend, With Me by Edward Field. Grove Press, $1.45. Variety Photoplays by Edward Field. Grove Press, $1.95.   They recommend themselves from the very start, these two volumes […]