This writer received some exposure when some of his early works were included in Mary Wrinn's The Hollow Reed, and his only dramatic work is the verse play Shenandoah.
This writer received some exposure when some of his early works were included in Mary Wrinn's The Hollow Reed, and his only dramatic work is the verse play Shenandoah. In one story by this writer, Belmont returns to the titular country from Paris and listens to the story of the Baumann family, while another story opens with a nameless narrator who dreams that he is in a theater watching a Sunday afternoon in 1909. In addition to "America! America!" and "In Dreams Begin Responsibilities," this writer's other stories are collected in The World is a Wedding, and he chronicled the divorce of his parents in the poem Genesis. A quotation from Whitehead about "the withness of the body" prefaces his poem about a "heavy animal" with "a manifold of honey to smear his face," "The Heavy Bear Who Goes With Me," while "Reflected headlights slowly slid the wall," in the titular location of one of his poems entitled "In the naked bed, in Plato's cave." The poet of works compiled in such collections as Vaudeville for a Princess and Summer Knowledge for ten points, identify this Jewish poet whose life was the basis for Saul Bellows' Humboldt's Gift, and to whom John Berryman dedicated his Dream Songs.
This writer received some exposure when some of his early works were included in Mary Wrinn's The Hollow Reed, and his only dramatic work is the verse play Shenandoah.
{Delmore Schwartz}