"Tching prayed on the mountain and/ wrote MAKE IT NEW/ on his bathtub/ Day by day make it new, cut underbrush/ pile the logs/ keep it growing." With this translation of a 2400-year-old passage from ...
Two WORLDS FOR MEMORY (348 pp.)—Alfred Noyes—Lippincotf ($5). Alfred Noyes is to English poetry much what the Royal Academy is to English painting. In his 72 years, Noyes has watched the breaking of ...
Editors note: This story has been updated to properly credit the concept of the gigan to the poet Ruth Ellen Kocher. Eliot White sees poetry in the impossible, beauty in failure and the infinite in ...