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I understand now why all 10 year olds love Sherlock Holmes; Sherlock Holmes is a 10 year old, inhabiting a lanky adult body. Delightful innocence perfumes these stories, where intelligence – like a guardian angel – removes all dangers. I recently discovered the Deep Image school of poetry, which my friend Robert Kelly is a […]

A person said that a good pen is strong than sword composing an article regularly is by all accounts a feared assignment among understudies. Regardless of whether the article is for a grant, a class, or possibly a challenge, numerous understudies regularly discover the assignment overpowering. While an exposition is a huge venture, many strides […]

This book was lately decommissioned from the “Central School District: Public Library, Towns of Hunter, Jewett and Lexington,” which says a lot about it – that it was cutting-edge in 1968, when it was published (that was in England, a year later in America), but seems a little dated now. Although this book is subtitled […]

This story was begun in 1966, completed in 1970 – written in French, of course, then translated by the author into English. It’s essentially a prose exploration of a section of The Inferno: one of the particular torments of Hell. (Is it an actual story from the Inferno? I don’t know.) But it’s very mechanical […]

This is the third printing, from 1934. (My copy was from the Woodstock Library.) The first page says simply: Inscribed To CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD I saw Spender, in the 1970s, when he wintered in Gainesville, Florida, where I lived as a young hippie. I attended two of his readings – which, in my remembrance, were exactly […]