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The modern essay has regained a good deal of its literary status in our time, much to the credit of Joseph Epstein.

Keelhaul the poets in the vestry chairs.

Already old, the question Who shall die? Becomes unspoken Who is innocent?

Leo Connellan has retained his soul and voice in Provincetown and Other Poems.

To make the child in your own image is a capital crime, for your image is not worth repeating. The child knows this and you know it. Consequently you hate each other.

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.