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A Note Before the First. An index of Subjects. The subjects: 1: Kenneth Rexroth’s Classics Revisited. 2: The Tale of Genji. 3: The poetry of Daniel Huws. 4: The novels of Jonis Agee. 5: Five (or twelve) great mysteries. 6: The literature of the Blasket Islands. 7: Zen: Shunryū Suzuki, Robert Aitken, R.H. Blyth, and Brian Victoria’s Zen At War. 8: The letters of Van Gogh, Keats, Helene Hanff, and the Shaw-Terry correspondence. 9: The journals of Pepys, Thoreau and Dorothy Wor
#282: THREE POETS. It’s rare for a first collection of poems to show the strength and grace of Danusha Laméris’s book The Moons of August . Many poets, still singing in the tones of callow youth, rush into print, which can have its merits: the early poems of Yeats, for instance, have a charm and sweetness that belong entirely to the young. But Lameris’s book, with its voice fully arrived, the perfected sense of when to cut a sentence short, the precisely right divvying o
