Volume 10, Number 12 · June 20, 1968

Jeremiads at Half-Mast

By Robert Mazzocco
The Light Around the Body
by Robert Bly

Harper & Row, 62 pp., $3.95

Damned Ugly Children
by Andrew Glaze

Trident, 80 pp., $3.95

The Light Around the Body is a meditation on politics, fatigue, failure, war, where we are now. In its theme and sensibility, its eerie passivity and suppressed anguish, it is, I suppose, a jeremiad at half-mast.



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