Volume 55, Number 6 · April 17, 2008
Glassed In
By Brad Leithauser
Straw for the Fire: From the Notebooks of Theodore Roethke, 1943–63
edited by David Wagoner
Copper Canyon, 259 pp., $16.00 (paper)
Some modern American poets have published novels (Robert Penn Warren, James Dickey, James Merrill, Sylvia Plath). Others have worked hard on novels but never saw them published (Edna St. Vincent Millay, Amy Clampitt). And still others simply can't be imagined as novelists. Theodore Roethke, who once declared, 'I can become a bird but I can't write a story,' belongs in this last company.
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