humane poems gesture towards hope
the demise of a romantic relationship
Miklos Radnoti translated from the Hungarian by Stephen Capus
and for the ease with which it moves back and forth between widely differing poetic idioms
in a city which I did not know
The First Books of David Henderson and Mary Korte: A Research Beda Higgins humane poems gesture towards hopeIn 1967, the first books of two poets were published by small presses on opposite coasts of the USA: David Hendersons Felix of the Silent Forest and Mary Norbert Kortes Hymn to the Gentle Sun. In this essay, poet, scholar, educator, and publisher Iris Cushing looks at the context of these supposedly minor poets, and through research and conversation with Korte, Henderson, and Diane di Prima, reconstructs the role of small presses in the