A Poet Who Cannot Pause
A review of Hypnos Waking, by René Char. READ MORE >>
Penny Wise, Pound Foolish
A review of Culture, by Ezra Pound. READ MORE >>
Sermon with a Camera
This is an eight-by-nine book of eighty-seven photographs on glazed paper. The pictures were taken in the Eastern part of the United States during the past seven years by a man named Walker Evans, as a record of what was in that place for Mr. Evans to see and what Mr. Evans saw there in that time. In a work of art place is everything. READ MORE >>
Harriet Monroe
A review of A Poet’s Life by Harriet Monroe. READ MORE >>
On Wallace Stevens
Review of The Man With the Blue Guitar and Other Poems by Wallace Stevens. The story is that Stevens has turned of late definitely to the left. I should say not, from anything in this book. He’s merely older and as an artist infinitely more accomplished. Passion he has, too often muted, but not flagrantly for the underdog. No use looking for Stevens there—without qualifications. READ MORE >>
