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Winter 1967 • Vol. XXIX No. 1 • Book Reviews |

Description as Poetry

By David Galler

Death Of A Naturalist by Seamus Heaney. Oxford University Press, $3.75.

Fox On A Barn Door by Ted Walker. George Braziller, $3.95.

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Versions of Accident

By David Galler

The Moving Target by W. S. Merwin. Atheneum Publishers. $3.95; paper, $1.95. Helmets by James Dickey. Wesleyan University Press. $4.00; paper, $1.85. Already have an account? Log in Join KR […]

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Along the Volcano

By David Galler

For Klaus Fluegge  Liking to dream the mountain lives, We suspect that, whether it has or not The past five hundred years, will have Or not in double that to […]

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