1912-1962 Joseph Parisi and Stephen...

1912-1962 Joseph Parisi and Stephen Young. fresh York: Norton, 2002. 473 pp $3500

"Parisi provides a generous introduction to each grouping of correspondence, thus that readers get a faculty of perception of what to expect before encountering the literal senses themselves. Throughout, names recur, and the same begins to anticipate them with relish. After his first choleric blast, I kept hoping the insufferable Maxwell Bodenheim would draw near back yet again to rail against the latest issue of rhyme and he does often, one time ...