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PARTISAN REVIEW
It occurs to me that I have not uttered a single adverse criti–
cism. Here is one:
It
may be said that her poetry perhaps unduly
lends itself
to
fragmentation. But who cares, when the components
are strong incantations, secu lar prayers, sanity-saving aphorisms,
new melodies of the language, puzzles that one may happily
spend one's life solving, or at least pondering. Ravishment worth
thinking about; upon the poor vast deserts a silvery little dwelling
place for the ratlike mind of man.