A cosmopolitan setting, centering in Basle. A seemingly serious case treated with high irony and amusing at the conduct of practically everyone involved, including the author. Passage of the Year. A book of poems collected and published while the author was in Vietnam in 1968. They represent the variety of styles and rhythms, with the philosophical thrusts, pragmatic and phenomenological, that typically characterize his prose work.
Some poems are as simple as mud pies, others as abstract as a medieval scholastic.
Classics, sports, music, sex, and cheap labor as they were there in the Great Depression, when it seemed that great ideas and planning could solve the world's problems. The Taste of War. An unexcelled account of World War II as experienced from Private to Commanding Officer in artillery, intelligence and combat propaganda units of the U.S. Army, from Maryland to the Mohave Desert and then in six campaigns in Africa, Italy, France and Germany. Twentieth Century Fire-Sale. A collection of 119 poems, poetry that is a concentration upon profound hypothesis, most in free verse, with sections on ecology, sociograms, places, intimacies, identity, violence, death, gods and the wickedly uncontrollable world.