Nick Swan had told us about several, mentioning no names, some of them drinkers and escapists who were ... endless,talk about "ballistics and high­ velocity small bores and other nonsense" that he as ... waist-high grass, rifles at ready, our enthusiasm somewhat dampened by the old maxim about the dead ones that ...

in Merwin's few poems about individuals. An uncle, a grand­ father, a grandmother- each one ... them their stature. All that I have said here about Merwin's use of myth would not, in itself, ... myth and poetry gives Merwin perspec­ tive and scope which allows him to write pertin­ ently about the ...

tongue "to represent what his mind perceives directly about him" (Spectrum, III, 3, ... activity. While poems about poetry, the act of composition, or about the mind contemplating its own powers ...

romantic view and the sharply critical one. Feel­ ing this way about the South (which I have known from ... "Go away, Pig! What do you know about bacon?" The cri­ tic of the South must not object to ... he only desires to become an individual well informed about the South's racial problems, the ...