Volume 48, Number 5 · March 29, 2001
Let's Face the Music
By Brad Leithauser
Reading Lyrics
edited and with an introduction by Robert Gottlieb and Robert Kimball
Pantheon, 706 pp., $39.50
Not long ago, during a layover in Chicago's O'Hare Airport, I ordered a bowl of soba noodles and, despite the crowds, located an empty table. Naturally, there were many televisions around. A football game was being played on the nearest one and I heard a sportscaster announce, with a laugh, 'Well, he's not about to go gentle into that good night.'
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