Volume 14, Number 9 · May 7, 1970
Oasis Poetry
By Denis Donoghue
Derivations
by Robert Duncan
Horizon, 144 pp., $6.75
Shall We Gather at the River
by James Wright
Wesleyan, 58 pp., $4.00
Collected Poems
by Alan Dugan
Yale, 200 pp., $6.00
Leaflets
by Adrienne Rich
Norton, 69 pp., $4.95
The Naomi Poems: Corpse and Beans
by Saint Geraud
Follett, 61 pp., $3.50
Derivations, Robert Duncan's selected poems 1950-1956, is the companion volume to The First Decade, the work of 1940-1950. The selection in both cases is an act of composition, the poems chosen for compatibility of tone. Mr. Duncan writes poems and, in a cooler spirit, makes books. If he were to bring all his poems together, the result would be 'my true book—no pleasure for aesthetes: a composite indecisive literature, attempting the rhapsodic, the austere, the mysterious, the sophisticated, the spontaneous, 'higglety-pigglety' as Emory Lowenthal sez.'
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