Poetry
Winter 1948
Two Poems
I. On the pink and pigeoned beach fails the amaranthine sea. The balconies of memory are washed away like lace. Underneath the water's stations, hung like toys in fluid worlds, […]
Nonfiction
Spring 1945
In Defense of Dylan Thomas
Sir: In your Winter ’44 issue, Arthur Mizener speaks of . . . the widespread adoption among the younger poets (I mean those who have developed since Auden) of the […]
New Verse by Five Poets
Winter 1944
Twenty-One Years
Came with wind and warning this morning the first birds. Came sun polishing the crucifix-insect where he paused dew-instant. I beheld here and there spiders going in grass to a […]
New Verse by Five Poets
Winter 1944
Litany
Among the skeletons of sun where the yellow lions run goes one in a diamond color, tears on his antique shoulder. He walks in a sea of salt with intention […]
New Verse by Five Poets
Winter 1944
Palms and Calendars
Folded, my tents and stars, to the double of day returning; confirmed in the light of wars and the witness of burning. Christened and wrapped in straw his tiger of […]
New Verse by Five Poets
Winter 1944
January
The shelled flesh will not hold nor the locked mind heal its wind of wounds; only the stone castle of bone to signal where the blood has flown (as winds […]