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… whole of historical actuality. I do not know if I have accomplished this well, but I know that the figure of my hero … it in Moscow. I heard it forty years ago. It was originally composed by shop assistants, and then it was taken up by … of Babel (i. e. the future kingdom of socialism) and the com pletest overthrow of freedom of conscience—that is what …

… against the Wind. By Helen Hull Jacobs. Doclcl, Mead and Company. $2.75. The Seas Stand Watch. By Helen Parker … is too limited: they would disregard the fact that he must also be a novelist, that he must create convincing … the sixth has only a limited success. Most of them have studied too much Americana and not enough Scott and Thackeray. …

… down a washboard gravel road—some left-of-nowhere oil company throughway punched into the Peruvian Amazon—when the … black boots, approached the car, a machine gun over his soldier. I wanted to go home. “It is routine,” Plinio said. “It … Then he said, “Look!” In the distance we saw three tiny points of light bobbing their way toward us—three Indians …

… other’s presence, vaguely yet certainly, in the way of animals on opposite sides of an open field, at night. The … for help, a proper introduction is made. Having prepared to die, the two women find themselves adrift on their … as inevitable, even desirable, that their homes should come to resemble the big-box selling floors they frequent. …

… unreasonable to assume,” I wrote in a 1985 essay called “Soldier-Poets of the Vietnam War” (published in VQR, V. 63, No. … Francisco State University) proved that assumption to be false. “Best of all,” I added, “poets like [Bruce] Weigl and … questions is yes. Here is what the poets I discussed have accomplished since I wrote that essay. John Balaban has …