For twenty years I've stared my level best
To see if evening—any evening—would suggest
A patient etherized upon a table;
In vain. I simply wasn't able.

On contemporary poetry

'A Confession' (1964)


For twenty years I've stared my level best To see if evening—any evening—would suggest A patient etherized upon a table; In vain. I simply wasn't ...

For twenty years I've stared my level best To see if evening—any evening—would suggest A patient etherized upon a table; In vain. I simply wasn't ...

For twenty years I've stared my level best To see if evening—any evening—would suggest A patient etherized upon a table; In vain. I simply wasn't ...

For twenty years I've stared my level best To see if evening—any evening—would suggest A patient etherized upon a table; In vain. I simply wasn't ...