Poetry
… the rivets at the corners of your blue jeans the curved metals stitched into the flesh of your bra where you are going …
… First impressions and final conclusions are the strategic points of contact between writer and reader. Mr. Frary is … considered beside Palladian. Professor Gilbert Chinard’s studies of Jefferson in relation to French art suggest one of … 1815.” The reader will recall that Jefferson died in 1826. Again at Frascati, the corners are trimmed; while less …
… Keats. By Amy Lowell. 2 volumes. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company. $12.50. This remarkable biography undertakes to … etc.” Such a method of biography runs to space. Miss Lowell also enjoys frank speculation over many things that perhaps … that Keats would eventually have stamped on jejune points of view and kept his thought and poetry to an equal …
… philosopher, the Virgil who can make any hell or limbo become a world suggesting and even giving birth to stories … him to see and know and even will everything that happens, also to know what the good and bad of it is without … he knows how the psyche suffers at the consequent tragedies and waste of spirit. But he also knows that spirit can …
Fiction
… as if all the houses emanated the sussuration of comfortable life. The inhabitants were mostly young, and at … his first cigarette at Peterson’s Pond, shared with his buddies. They had found Johnny Bill wading at the edge. His … It was a passion he’d never known before or since. Ellen died young of an aneurysm. Six months later Paul nailed a …
… bulged with their winter clothes. “She must think we’ve come for weeks.” Tom shook his head. “She knows how long … reading Anthony Sampson’s Anatomy of Britain . At meals he would give little summaries of what he had read. But … in all these months in London, not even when Kennedy died. She felt vaguely ashamed and vowed to talk to Phil …