Reviews
Auden in the 21st Century (on The Complete Works of W. H. Auden: Poems, Volume I: 1927–1939 and Volume II: 1940–1973, edited by Edward Mendelson)
When W. H. Auden visited wartime Shanghai with Christopher Isherwood in 1938, they took breaks from “their social consciences” to frequent a bathhouse where they were “erotically soaped and massaged […]
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If the lyrical mode of the poems in Henri Cole’s Blizzard is something “elegant, libidinous, austere”—as one poem characterizes Cole’s own personality—the great subject to which Cole returns is desire […]
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Features
The Visitation of God; The Leaf Blower among the Swimming Pool Lights; Egg; & In Praise of Disquiet
In Praise of Disquiet The years are fine with dust that settles in the eyes. The stars are bound to gods from abandoned temples. By night you fear the […]
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IN Fall 2003