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Fall 1965 $1 the CARLETON MISCELLANY O Oo 5 z z (A (A tt 2 5 > I u u SEE 'Your Eighty Years' Fall 1965 $1 THE CARLETON MISCELLANY Vol. VI, Number 4 Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota 55057 Published by Carleton College Editor: Erling Larsen Associate Editor: Wayne Carver Managing Editor: Carolyn Soule Editor, Department of American: Wayne Booth Consulting Editor: Reed Whittemore Vol. VI, No. 4 Fall 1965 In Fourteen Lines I Hail Your Eighty Years 5 June 1965 Two poems by John Lucas 2 Others, story by Robley Wilson, Jr 4 Poems by Lawrence P. Spingarn, Ernest Kroll, John Pauker and Ralph S. Pomeroy 30 The Virgin in the Woods, essay by Harold Bordwell 36 Poems by Laurence Lieberman, Barry Spacks, Daniel Hoffman and Mona Van Duyn 50 The Kiss, story by Robert Lowry 58 Poems by Larry Rubin, Constance Urdang, Andrew Oerke and Kenneth Pitchford 61 Reviews by Forbes Hays, David Porter, Robert Diebold and Wayne Carver 69 A Garland of Letters 107 Cover drawing by Henri Gaudier-Brzeska The Carleton Miscellany is published quarterly. Rates are as follows: $1.00 a copy; $3.50 a year; $6.00 for two years. It is distributed to newsstands and bookstores by B. De Boer, 188 High Street, Nutley, New Jersey. All volumes available on microfilm through University Microfilms, 313 N. First St., Ann Arbor, Michigan. Manuscripts should be submitted to The Carleton Miscellany, Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota, as should subscriptions. Manuscripts are submitted at the authors risk, and will not be returned unless they are accompanied by stamped, self-addressed envelopes. The Carleton Miscellany is not an official publication of Carleton College, nor are the views expressed in its columns necessarily those of the college. The editors assume no responsibility for the views expressed by contributors to die magazine. Member of the Association of Literary Magazines of America Copyright, 1965, by Carleton College Second-class postage paid at Northfield, Minnesota 55057 John Lucas IN FOURTEEN LINES I HAIL YOUR EIGHTY YEARS (30 October 1965) Tribe troubadour, before the worst or first Of our curst world's conflagrations burst Your clarion declaration to engage On every front entrenched convention, pact Unmentionable till precision had Enfranchised the true image of this age. Zeros may multiply but cannot add, Real figures divide, seldom subtract — And empty ciphers least resemble you, Primary pigment, vital integer. Outrageously you gave the common tongue Uncommon utterance, poetic due — Never forgetting, just as music should stir Dancers to dance, so verses must be sung. 5 JUNE 1965 Gaudier-Brzeska has been killed at Neuville St. Vaast, and we have lost the best of the young sculptors and the most promising. The arts will incur no worse loss from the war than this is. One is rather obsessed with it. —Ezra Pound to Felix Schelling (London, June 1915) Your genius is beginning to enjoy A fame the standard fifty years deferred. We recognize that alabaster boy Kneeling to shoulder coney, that bronze bird Devouring fish, that hieratic head Of seer Ezra, that red-stone dancing-girl. Your young self scarcely half a century dead, The marble miracles start to unfurl. Now we recall how with a pocket-knife Out of a captured German rifle-butt There at the front before they took your life You carved one last Maternity — though what A walnut masterpiece was cast away, Along with its creator, who can say? 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Gentleman, soldier, Good citizen — can you tell me, please?" Our tea Was cold, the room buzzed with his questions, But I fled the answers, blood on my shaking hands. 30 Ernest Kroll ADVERTISEMENT FOR AN ANTIQUE MAP Collector's item. Rare. Inaccurate with two "St. Laurens" Rivers, one Right into Lake Superior; A Michigan too narrow At the top, and California Still an island;
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