No one else can take a bath for you
Mark Ford, 31 March 1988
The ego is always at the wheel
by Delmore Schwartz.
Carcanet, 146 pp., £6.95, May 1987,0 85635 702 2 Show More
by Delmore Schwartz.
Carcanet, 146 pp., £6.95, May 1987,
A Nest of Ninnies
by John Ashbery and James Schuyler.
Carcanet, 191 pp., £10.95, June 1987,0 85635 699 9 Show More
by John Ashbery and James Schuyler.
Carcanet, 191 pp., £10.95, June 1987,
“... the little girl sang, ‘Each morning I am something new ...’ Schwartz’s literary executor, Robert Philips, thinks this is one of Schwartz’s permanent contributions to 20th-century American poetry, but I don’t think he can be serious. There are occasional strikes, such as ‘Mr Seurat’s Sunday Afternoon’, and he never lost his gift for good ... ”