… of this book about a remarkable woman and poet is most welcome. Limmer fashioned her portrait from scant … success and failure, to which she appends “the “facts” are false, at the end”—an evocation of her fundamental premise … from her first husband by whom she had a daughter Maidie. Most revealing are the notes on her relationship with …
Poetry
… “Make of yourself a light,” said the Buddha, before he died. I think of this every morning as the east begins to …
… of trained performers who would appear to have some of the competence that the critic needs. The first is the artist … matter whether we call them sciences or just systematic studies; the total effort of each to be effective must be … enterprise might be seriously taken in hand by professionals. Perhaps I use a distasteful figure, but I have the idea …
Essays
… Introspectivist agenda for an intimate, experiential, embodied poetry, which rejected symbolic formalisms, but they … lover and a caring mother, and the roles don’t always sit comfortably together. How ruefully she acknowledges the … wheel, and I don’t regret it. Does it matter what a flower dies of— autumn, a storm wind. And you, my storm wind, are …
… confronted with a body of sociological criticism which reveals an awareness of human frustration. I refer specially to … economic and political experiments are but meagre. The Communists rely upon their myth of a dialectic process, … of Christendom. The political thought of the great medieval Christian doctors, such as John of Salisbury and St. …
… 1930 there appeared, under the imprint of D. Apple-ton and Company, the first volume of a projected two-volume work on … only skim over the brief accounts of those magazines whose complete histories the author has chosen to sketch in to … invariably make important contributions to a more complete understanding of the text. 309-310 By Jack Dalton …