a post-literary silence (silence after long speech is one order of the day), books which will somehow un-book the ... and perhaps social spaces. My feelings about all this are mixed. I don't think all the ... conditioning equally undesirable? Yes, say some American voices, it is conditioning per se which is to be ...

Page 60 from Issue 122 Poet at the Piano My mind moves to another country, to which we are bound ... wreckage we humans can make of our shared world. There is a poem that plays in my head, as much for its ... voice of angry fear, The voice of this besieging pain. 2 I think this poem has been in my head in ...

secretly dispossessed of my civil rights; practically every day I was subjected to some petty, invisible ... dialogue. We looked good, for old fogeys, that was true. But then the moment of silence lengthened out a bit ... Hubert's voice was thun­ derous, as if he were in some space larger than my cluttered room. While I was ...

danced off into the sunset. Then there was a long silence and the poet went to adjust the dial of the ... radio. And then he heard news of a bombing of American ships somewhere, the announcer was not sure where; ... to the camp in Virginia. They would usually leave late on a Sunday night after the three-day pass and ...