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the vivacious teenage daughter of a friend, whose escapades fill her with regret at her own “squandered youth, the absence of rebellion.” “In spring I suffer,” one entry begins. “The season...

At home (February 2004)

At Home Two decades of hell could not convince Odysseus to think of Ithaca as just another island. Where else did Churchill go in his defeat but back to what he fondly called his...

Bush's war (September 2003)

Samuel Hazo BUSH'S WAR Now that it's 'over,' why did we do it? Recently I attended a reunion at Quantico, Virginia, of Marine Corps officers who served during the 1950s. There we listened to an...

Welcome to New York Entrepreneurism (April 2003)

Samuel Hazo Welcome to New York My sparrow preens in a fountain pool that mirrors the World Trade Center upside down. She fluffs and shudders dry like a dog after a dousing. What's a sparrow...

Poetry: (July 1988)

DANCE STARS & THEIR STRIPES THE AMERICAN MUSICAL FESTIVAL To celebrate its fortieth anniversary, the New York City Ballet recently mounted an American Music Festival (April 26 and May 15). The...

Poetry (May 1988)

Samuel Hazo Update Trying to toughen where the hurt came once and where it stays, you learn too late that nothing heals, that years are poultices, not cauteries. It takes so little for the...

American Childhood (November 1987)

ATTENTION MUST BE PAID AN AMERICAN CHILDHOOD Annie Dillard Harper & Row, $17.95, 255 pp.________ Samuel Hazo Two things are revealed in this personal reminiscence by Annie Dillard that...

BOOKS (October 1977)

of. Bloom, however, does not. Rather, he compounds the coldness so that Stevens seems frozen to the core, icier than his own snow man. Bloom's Stevens is also a poet totally self-deceived, a...

CRITICS' CHOICES FROM THE UNIVERSITY PRESSES (May 1975)

BOOKS Critics' choices from the university presses Samuel Hazo For me the two most distinguished books published by university presses in 1974 were Anthony Kerrigan's translation of Miquel de...

VERSE: (December 1973)

of a German prisoner-of-war camp where he had been allowed to retain in his cell a single book, the poems of Alexander Pushkin. The book literally kept the Russian alive through four years of...

BOOKS (October 1973)

Funland and Other Poem* DANNIE ABSE World, $6.95 Gnomes and Occasions HOWARD NEMEROV Chicago, $5.95 SAMUEL HAZO The Welsh have such a way with English. Whether it's Thomas, Bevan or Burton...

ONE SITTING WITH GLEB DERUJINSKY (February 1973)

ONE SITTING WITH GLEB DERUJINSKY SAMUEL HAZO It is a three-room second-floor apartment on West 65th Street in New York, replete with the usual urban safeguards: a locked main door that is...

THE DEATH OF JOHN BERRYMAN (February 1972)

THE DEATH OF JOHN BERRYMAN SAMUEL HAZO Somehow it was like seeing a film for the second time. So many things about him pointed to his tragic conclusion. The first and only time I met John...

VERSE (January 1966)

SAMUEL HAZO HAWK IN THE SUN Over the snow the quiet wings glided the harrier high and free. Over the snow the shadow passed, and nothing moved but the hawk and me. Lost in the snow I hiked for...

God and Man (September 1964)

Mrs. Herzfeld makes a similar point about Commonweal. In spite of its low amusement production, an uncertain threshold of tedium, and a curious tendency to listlessness during warm weather, it is...

Something Left for Right Now (January 1964)

Something Left for Right Now For John J. Wright, D.D. The runover fox receding in the rear-view mirror of my mind refocuses a world I knew by name before it changed. Now mountains are more present...

The Poet's Cult (October 1963)

Tribal Loyalty and Isolationism Are Taking Their Toll The Poet's Cult SAMUEL HAZO PLATO banished poets from the republic because he claimed they could neither account for nor take credit for...

The Year I Reached the Years of God (March 1963)

It is my belief that Newton Minow would do us better service ff 'he would cease to concern himself with the details of contemporary programming, which only makes matters worse for those in the...

Relic for Future Diggers (December 1962)

point is that when so many important contemporary with a set of intentions that never reach consummation. dramas are never revived, to show us "The Living (At the Gramercy...

PIuto Without Prosperine (September 1962)

ism." But, face to face with him, even their pragmatic armor admits the impact of his force. Certainly our ambassadors and our soldiers have registered it. His force is not charm. Diem, respectable...

Of Note: Belief and the Critic (October 1961)

der Donald McWhinnie's direction the cast, especially Donald Pleasence--who makes of Davies a superlatively realized figure for whom our compassion is as great as our repugnance--contributes...

1950-1960: A Poem (May 1961)

1950-1960: A POEM A rooster flexing a wing at a time, testing each leg for a step, a calf's saliva smeared and frozen to its pelt, the stanchioned cow with wrinkled udders cold until they...

Books (April 1961)

BOOKS Policy and Politics of International Life A HISTORY OF THE COLD WAR. By John Lukacs. Doubleday. $3. 95. By WILLIAM PFAFF THE DISTINCTION between international policy and international...

The Carnival Ark: A Poem (January 1961)

in the film that form (not technique) is least easily separated from content—a truism, certainly, yet it has conventionally been the distance between raw material and refined form that determines...

Poetry of Contact (October 1960)

TO SEE CLEARLY Poetry of Contact by SAMUEL HAZO I N Creative Intuition in Art and Poetry, Jacques Maritain has written that "it is difficult for a modern poet not to be a child of modern man." If...

Postscript to Many Letters: A Poem (May 1960)

cation would take place the day after the Soviet leader visited the cathedral. As this could have been done quietly without such an announcement, the proceedings struck many Frenchmen as being...

Paul before Agrippa: A Poem (August 1959)

standpoint of its support for nationalist movements. They usually argued the "two camp" theory of the late Stalin period rather than the more sophisticated line of "peaceful co-existence." And...

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