Anne Porter
Deen, Rosemary
Anne Porter: Different world, different words n the winter of 19791 saw my first Anne Porter poems, one of which we chose right away for the Christmas issue. Since then, I believe, most of her...
...For me the join of the very sophisticated and the very simple in the poems implies a world neither I nor anyone else has ever imagined...
...The honoring words are true...
...I keep reading the poems as they keep coming to my desk to know more, poem by poem, about this world...
...We have been lucky (see, page 15...
...It's a pleasure—and funny—to read the squibs and the superb introduction by David Shapiro and hear behind them the sigh of relief of blurb-writing friends and writers who this time don't have to equivocate or even puff...
...and the book has been nominated for a National Book Award...
...Since then, I believe, most of her published poems have appeared in Commonweal...
...Yes—if ever there was a national book for these sixty years...
...ROSEMARY DEEN 4 Commonweal...
...Someone walks with a small child past the locked-up shops, and they see "one window heaped with tarnished lamps/Guitars and radios and dusty furs/And there among them a pawned christening-dress/White as a waterfall...
...Now two of her friends have arranged to have a selection of poems published: An Altogether Different Language, Poems 1934-1994 (Zoland Books, $10.95,128 pp...
...As I know more, I want the next poem, which shows the world's deepening shore, or an island interior before dawn, or maybe First Avenue, empty and gray on an early Sunday of a long-ago war...
Vol. 121 • November 1994 • No. 19
