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...Viereck is outdone by Todd Boli, whose poem, "To My Wife About Pears," is the best piece in the issue. The purchase of three dozen pears is not the most likely source of good poetry, but it succeeds here because Boli effectively brings us into the world of both characters. He captures his wife's thoughts neatly in these four lines...
Opus begins with Frank Bidart's "After Catullus," a poem with an explicitly sexual ending. This has reportedly enraged the Quincy House Committee, and it is rumored that funds for a second issue are dependent upon more polite selections. It is of course easy in such cases to avoid examining the poem behind the shock; here, it is a disservice to the author. In this and his other poems, Bidart exercises a kind of Jewish irony in his diction which recalls Alan Dugan, last year's winner of the Yale Younger Poets Award. This is certainly a refreshing change from...
Working behind his eyes, miitgating the sad reports they send, is a mind with surprises, teeming with words that can trick experience out of the troubles it has in store. In "Success Comes to Cow Creek," a poem much concerned with suicide, the poet's friend Gerald approaches and he thinks...
Poking the Foibles. One of his most satiric series was his dozen oils of Hu-dibras, the central figure in Samuel Butler's scathing poem on puritanical hypocrisy. Hudibras was ignorant, conceited, preachy, distempered, vain-a cocksure jackass. Butler used him to poke fun at reformers, and so did Hogarth...
...central inspiration of Miss Greenspan's poem suggests the major theme of the entire issue. After "turning the day clockless" the poetess becomes concerned with discovering "some sequence of tense." Marshall Berman and Anne Bernays similarly have attempted to find some sequence of events in their pasts, which help clarify their present attitudes and feelings. Kroch and Aufhauser have observed the conflicts between a traditional way of life and the demands of modernity. Russo and Hamburg have prssented fragments of the past in fiction and poetry. Mosaic does not try to put together the puzzle of the past; it successfully...