Volume 29, Number 7 · April 29, 1982
Ask the Fact
By Vernon Shetley
The Revisionist
by Douglas Crase
Little, Brown, 85 pp., $10.95; $5.95 (paper)
The Everlastings
by Norman Dubie
Doubleday, 78 pp., $6.95; $4.95 (paper)
The poets who mean the most to us are those who tell us about what we cannot see by reason of its very proximity. What we look for in the voices of young poets is news of the freshest modifications of our consciousness. Some of the interest our friends (and our lovers) have for us seems to lie in their ability to tell us things about ourselves we could not otherwise have known. While poems can hardly take the place of friends, it does not seem right for friends entirely to take the place of poems. The man who would know himself will not wish to forgo either.
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