Hayden Carruth

New and Collected Poems, 1917–1976. By Archibald MacLeish. Houghton Mifflin. $6.95 (paper). Almost 60 years of poetry in just under 500 pages, this new book by Mr. MacLeish. Think of it. On this account alone, though many poems have been omitte [...]

Even these stones I placed crudely once, black now from many fires, bring me a little knowledge, the things I've done, the times endured, saying I am this one, this person, as night falls through the trees. I see sand darkening by the edge of [...]

Pilgrim at Tinker Creek. By Annie Dillard. Harper's Magazine Press. $7.95.In many respects Annie Dillard's book, "Pilgrim at Tinker Creek," is so ingratiating that even readers who find themselves in fundamental disagreement with it may take pleasure [...]

Coming of winter is a beech sapling rising silverly in a brown field in bramble in thicket the raspberry the rosemallow all gone to rust is a silver sapling to which in wind and the judaskisses of snow the starved brown leaves cling [...]

Notebooks: Volume I. By Albert Camus. Translated by Philip Thody. Alfred A. Knopf. $5.00. Albert Camus began to keep his notebooks in 1935 when he was twenty-two years old. He continued until he died in 1900. The notes, written by hand in cheap co [...]

The poets of the Land of Indra write Godhulivela, end of day, "the hour The cows make dusty," and a lotus flower, Remembering, lays its petals to the light Of August evenings. And this is how The word in darkness for two thousand years And experienc [...]

I dreamt that I had found A page by Master Yeats Never known before. My heart did sing and bound For joy of what I read Beside the fallen tower. Twined in the hard script, The golden key To all our dreamt creation. Truly the poet knit Of his own sto [...]