...Belle Randall In memory of Stanley Cavell, a family friend of more than a half-century’s standing writes about his years in Berkeley (1944 to 1964), when he was deciding between music and philosophy as his field and then, eventually, joined the philosophy faculty as a lecturer. This guest column...

...Belle Randall [email protected] Copyright © 2022 by Belle Randall 2022 Black Eyes say Love me or I kill you, Blue eyes say Love me or I die. My mother used to recite these lines for my entertainment when I was seven or eight, quoting some obscure source...

...Belle Randall [email protected] Copyright © 2022 by Belle Randall 2022 Letter on the Eve of an Elopement for S. C. How often do we need reminding My mother's skin was smooth as eggshell once. My mother's hair was red, like mine, and long, And “I Know Where...

...Belle Randall Readers may ask whether we do not already know enough about Sylvia and Ted. The bite mark on his cheek where she drew blood the night they met, the cup of warm milk set out for her toddlers to find with her body in the morning. This detail—the cup of warm milk cooled to frigid...

...Belle Randall [email protected] Bob Dylan , The Philosophy of Modern Song ( New York : Simon and Schuster , 2022 ), 339 pp. Copyright © 2023 by Duke University Press 2023 The Philosophy of Modern Song : curious title, a curious book. If you bought it, as I did...

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...Wisława Szymborska; Jee Leong Koh; Yusef Komunyakaa; Samuel Menashe; Gunter Eich; Thom Gunn; Miroslav Holub; Darrel Alejandro Holnes; Luis Garcia; Ewa Lipska; Grzegorz Wróblewski; Belle Randall; Jeffrey M. Perl Copyright © 2010 Duke University Press 2010 ...

...Belle Randall Li tt le R ev ie w s 1 6 7of generosity even nastiness in his assessment of colleagues and especially academic rivals. Denis Donoghue, for example, is characterized as an ambula- tory joke, and Kenner s fellow Joycean Richard Ellmann is repeatedly maligned. Davenport is more...

...Belle Randall C O M M O N K N O W L E D G E 1 6 8 New Selected Poems of Thom Gunn, ed. Clive Wilmer (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2018), 336 pp. Selected Poems of Thom Gunn, ed. August Kleinzahler (London: Faber and Faber, 2009), 128 pp. As the title of the American edition, New Selected...

...Belle Randall Jim Powell, Substrate (New York: Pantheon, 2009), 137 pp. Duke University Press 2010 Little Reviews Mark S. Schantz, Awaiting the Heavenly Country: The Civil War and America’s Culture of Death (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University...

...Belle Randall Samuel Menashe, New and Selected Poems , ed. Christopher Ricks (Northumberland, U.K.: Bloodaxe, 2009), 202 pp. Duke University Press 2010 LITTLE REVIEWS Sarah McNamer, Affective Meditation and the Invention of Medieval Compassion (Philadelphia...

...Belle Randall Benjamin Cavell, Rumble, Young Man, Rumble (New York: Vintage, 2003), 191 pp. Duke University Press 2009 Little Reviews Loren Samons II, What’s Wrong with Democracy? From Athenian Practice to American...

...Belle Randall © 2011 by Duke University Press 2011 not for sale Poetry and Fiction THE ASSUMPTION Belle Randall My mother had wanted to try LSD ever since way back in the fifties when she read an article by Cary...

...Belle Randall © 2008 by Duke University Press 2008 not for sale POETRY AND FICTION DIPTYCH Belle Randall AT SPANDAU In a fortress built to hold six hundred men, I, the only inmate, am awakened at six a.m., clean...

...Belle Randall Frederick Seidel, Poems, 1959–2009 (New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2009), 509 pp. Duke University Press 2010 LITTLE REVIEWS Brigitte Le Juez, Beckett before Beckett, trans. Ros Schwartz (London...

...Belle Randall Skeptical of the arguments put forth in Robert Duncan's long-awaited, post-humously published The H. D. Book , this review essay questions the elevation of Pre-Raphaelite, Aestheticist, and Decadent poetry that forms the basis of Duncan's revisionist canon—a revision in which Wallace...

...Belle Randall © 2017 by Duke University Press 2017 not for sale POETRY AND FICTION THE LIZARD WHISPERER Belle Randall I found my lizard in rain time grass, and that is the greenest of all. I gave my lizard an emerald...

...Belle Randall Duke University Press 2004 not for sale FICTION AND POETRY POSTSCRIPT Belle Randall Dear Reader Riffling backwards through these pages seeking an arresting image, a memorable line, I feel you...

...Belle Randall The Letters of Robert Duncan and Denise Levertov , ed. Robert J. Bertholf and Albert Gelpi (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2004), 857 pp. 2006 by Duke University Press 2006 REVIEW THE AUTOPSY OF A FRIENDSHIP Belle Randall...

...Belle Randall Christopher Ricks, (New York: Ecco, 2004), 528 pp. Duke University Press 2005 LITTLE REVIEWS Lindsay Waters, Enemies of Promise: Publishing, Perishing, and the Eclipse of Scholarship (Chicago: Prickly Paradigm, 2004), 89 pp. Sophie...