Leo Connellan has retained his soul and voice in Provincetown and Other Poems.
The modern essay has regained a good deal of its literary status in our time, much to the credit of Joseph Epstein.
Poetry is not a way of saying things; it's a way of seeing things.
Already old, the question Who shall die? Becomes unspoken Who is innocent?
But with exquisite breathing you smile, with satisfaction of love, And I touch you again as you tick in the silence and settle in sleep.
The good poet sticks to his real loves, to see within the realm of possibility. He never tries to hold hands with God or the human race.