Book Reviews
Spring 1966
Lessing’s Africa
African Stories by Doris Lessing. Simon and Schuster, $7.95. Doris Lessing is a gifted and straightforward writer who lapses on occasion, frequent occasion, into a dreary earnestness and a deadly […]
Poetry
Summer 1965
A Song to Be Vindicated
A little like the Macon, drawing-board baroque, An ornate rocket ship knifes through the inked-in smoke, Her life-class pilot faceless. Is it Flash? Brick? Buck? And in that Art Nouveau […]
Poetry
Summer 1965
Of Heaven as Production Number
Perspective false and canvas full of tears, The painted backdrop terminates real stairs; And toward that point at which they vanish, paint Or hole, an act of faith impels, not […]
Poetry
Summer 1963
Theatro Amazonas (Manaos)
Mosaic sidewalks phase the downcast vision, And where it lifts, the solid dome has pulse—As if that afterimage, wholly motion, Unfettered structure from the space it fills; As if the […]
Fiction
Winter 1961
Distances from Berlin
I met Julian first, and Erich afterwards. Both however, were long since familiar: Johannesburg conversation pieces, and, as it were, objects of pilgrimage. For a certain contingent in the city, […]