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… as the revelatory Uncollected Poems ; in so doing, he has become Rilke’s best and most important ambassador to American … Emerson’s “transparent eyeball,” taking everything in, but also like the statues of Rilke’s mentor Rodin, which seem to … hopes to reveal in his poems. In Snow’s hands, Rilke becomes clear as glass—as if the poems could be windows …

… revealing itself in such diverse ways as the pomp of rituals, the prattling of babes, and the incremental repetition … thesis, no story in the formal sense of the word, and no comment by the author. In a sharply subdivided sequence of … grief it may be but, thwarted by the needs of wedded bodies and wedded souls, little more than a divider of …

… really wasn’t news. We have known that since the brave soldiers of General Lee’s army hopelessly shuffled home with … the historical reason, make necessary contemporary comparisons, and do something about it. The past, present, … — lawyers, business men, doctors, clergymen, public officials—either consciously or unconsciously serve the Lords of …

An Engine That Won’t The town, my dear, is closing down: dead- Bolts slipping into their sleeves, cicadas insisting Like so many typewriters, drunk girls sleeping In their shoes. Without you, the house begs For disaster, love: extension cord nest, …

… numbed or terrified by what surrounds them—the state, the community, or the violence of the prairie itself. The first … horrors. He is the insensitive killer, but he is also capable of losing himself in romantic daydreams or his … when he lighted them, and he knew that someone would die. Although the story closes with the boy angrily seeking …