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On Robert Lowell’s “Children of Light” [by Jeffrey Meyers]
Our fathers wrung their bread from stocks and stonesAnd fenced their gardens with the Redman’s bones;Embarking from the Nether Land of Holland,Pilgrims unhouseled by Geneva’s night,They planted here the serpent’s seeds of light;And here…
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What is Postmodernism? No one knows but David Lehman hazards a guess
D a v i d L e h m a nThe Questions ofPostmodernism What do the following have in common? A poem about the characters in a book, and about the reader of…
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Columbia College 1967 #29 [by Mitch Sisskind]
Carlson Fenwick, Professor In our years-long correspondence concerningAll things Shakespearian Alan Grosbeck and ISometimes amused ourselves by concoctingHare-brained interpretations and pursuingThem to their risibly illogical conclusions.Aware for instance that in Elizabethan times‘Nothing’ was a…
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Paul Berman on Saul Bellow in Jerusalem
from "Bellow in Jerusalem" by Paul Berman (Tablet, January 21, 2020): <<<In the single most remarkable passage of Bellow’s To Jerusalem and Back, Bellow frets over his own ability to see and appreciate miracles…
