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On the Decline of Species

The Invisible Pyramid, by Loren Eiseley

by Hayden Carruth

The Hudson Review, Spring 1971, pp. 153-158

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    Spring 1971 Issue = 21 Articles
    1. Letters to the Editor, pp. 8-12
    2. Notes on Contributors, pp. 13-14
    3. Eight Quechua Poems by W.S. Merwin, pp. 15-22
    4. Joao Cabral de Melo Neto: The Dog Without Feather by Thomas Colchie, pp. 23-34
    5. A Knife All Blade; Weaving the Morning; The Emptiness of Man by Galway Kinnell, pp. 35-37
    6. Cemetary in Pernambuco (St. Lawrence of the Woods); Cemetary in Pernambuco (Our Lady of... by Jane Cooper, pp. 38-39
    7. From an Indian Diary by Joseph Bennett, pp. 40-66
    8. Pakistan Journal by Carolyn Kizer, pp. 67-90
    9. Nine Poems from Yun-King Tzu by Jerome P. Seaton and Yun-King Tzu, pp. 91-93
    10. The Antiquities of Elis (story) by Guy Davenport, pp. 94-110
    11. Masterpiece-baiting by John Simon, pp. 111-118
    12. Literature in New Guinea by Ulli Beier, pp. 119-127
    13. Man, His Gaoler by Vernon Young, pp. 128-134
    14. Music and Ballet by B.H. Haggin, pp. 135-144
    15. Jack Bush by Charles W. Millard, pp. 145-152
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      On the Decline of Species by Hayden Carruth, pp. 153-158 - 2 Reviews
      1. The Invisible Pyramid by Loren Eiseley
      2. The Storm Petrel and the Owl of Athena by Louis J. Halle
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      The Poem and the Moment by William Dickey, pp. 159-170 - 7 Reviews
      1. Death and Friends by Jon Anderson
      2. Uplands: New Poems by A.R. Ammons
      3. Farming: A Hand Book by Wendell Berry
      4. For You by Hayden Carruth
      5. Selected Poems, 1920-1970 by R.G. Everson
      6. Notebook 1967-68 by Robert Lowell
      7. Regarding Wave by Gary Snyder
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      Pepys Revived by Earl Miner, pp. 171-176 - 1 Review
      1. The Diary of Samuel Pepys by Robert Latham, William Matthews #3, and Samuel Pepys, ...
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      Fiction Chronicle by Patrick Cruttwell, pp. 177-184 - 12 Reviews
      1. The Green Man by Kingsley Amis
      2. Monk Dawson by Piers Paul Read
      3. Last Things by C.P. Snow
      4. Islands in the Stream by Ernest Hemingway
      5. The Vivisector by Patrick White
      6. God Is an Englishman by R.F. Delderfield
      7. Bomber by Len Deighton
      8. The Driver's Seat by Muriel Spark
      9. Three by Sylvia Ashton-Warner
      10. Baldur's Gate by Eleanor Clark
      11. Two Sisters by Gore Vidal
      12. Permanent Errors by Reynolds Price
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      Scrupulous Permutations and Occult Resemblances by Marvin Mudrick, pp. 185-200 - 11 Reviews
      1. Teitlebaum's Window by Wallace Markfield
      2. Green Grass, Blue Sky, White House by Wright Morris
      3. Superstar by Viva
      4. One or Another by Rosalyn Drexler
      5. In the Twelfth Year of the War by Philip Appleman
      6. Bubble's Shadow by Joel Gross
      7. To Walk the Line by David Quammen
      8. Two Tales of the Occult by Mircea Eliade
      9. Impressions of Africa by Raymond Roussel
      10. Locus Solus by Raymond Roussel
      11. The Aleph and Other Stories, 1933-1969 by Jorge Luis Borges and Norman Thomas di Giovanni, ...
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      Litter Bug by Roger Sale, pp. 201-208 - 1 Review
      1. The Greening of America by Charles A. Reich
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    Summer 1971 Issue = 15 Articles
    1. An Americal Memoir by Margaret Marshall, pp. 213-241
    2. Salvos for Albertito; Lake Zempoala; Oneonta, New York by R.G. Vliet, pp. 242-246
    3. The Tables Speak by Rayner Heppenstall, pp. 247-260
    4. The Country of Marriage; Zero; Her First Calf; The Old Elm by the River; Some of the Pa... by Wendell Berry, pp. 261-266
    5. The Winter Runner; Stealing the Christmas Greens; Proposals Made in the Name of Reason;... by Brendan Galvin, pp. 267-270
    6. First Night Gone; Monday Night by William Dickey, p. 271
    7. Mishima Yukio by Edward Seidensticker, pp. 272-282
    8. Letter from Tokyo (report) by Robert Martin Adams, pp. 283-290
    9. Theatre by John Simon, pp. 291-300
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      Film: Sex and Politics by Stephen Farber, pp. 301-308 - 2 Reviews
      1. Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion (1970 Film) by Elio Petri
      2. The Conformist (1970 Film) by Bernardo Bertolucci
    11. Music and Ballet by B.H. Haggin, pp. 309-319
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      Here Today: A Poetry Chronicle by Hayden Carruth, pp. 320-336 - 12 Reviews
      1. Dismantling the Silence by Charles Simic
      2. The Stone Harp by John Haines
      3. The Only World There Is by Miller Williams
      4. Crow by Ted Hughes
      5. Findings by Richard Howard
      6. Briefings: Poems Small and Easy by A.R. Ammons
      7. Collected Poems by James A. Wright
      8. The Swimmers, and Other Selected Poems by Allen Tate
      9. Tribunals by Robert Duncan
      10. A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle by Hugh MacDiarmid and John C. Weston
      11. The Collected Poems of George Bruce by George Bruce
      12. Love and the Turning Year by Kenneth Rexroth
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      Something like a Theocracy by Vernon Young, pp. 337-345 - 1 Review
      1. Hope Against Hope by Nadezhda Mandelstam
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      Leavis, Dickens, and the Last Days by Marvin Mudrick, pp. 346-354 - 1 Review
      1. Dickens the Novelist by Frank R. Leavis and Q.D. Leavis
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      Stranger than Truth by William H. Pritchard, pp. 355-368 - 20 Reviews
      1. Touching by Gwen Davis
      2. Feeling It by L.H. Whittemore
      3. Dealing; or, The Berkeley-to-Boston Forty-Brick Lost-Bag Blues by Michael Douglas
      4. Dance the Eagle to Sleep by Marge Piercy
      5. Eisenhower, My Eisenhower by Jerome Charyn
      6. The Death and Life of Harry Goth by D. Keith Mano
      7. Farragan's Retreat by Tom McHale
      8. Cony-Catching by Kirby Farrell
      9. The Bushwacked Piano by Thomas McGuane
      10. The Dick Gibson Show by Stanley Elkin
      11. Enchantment by Linda Grace Hoyer
      12. The Abortion by Richard Brautigan
      13. The Merry Merry Month of May by James Jones
      14. Lion Country by Frederick Buechner
      15. Babi Yar by Anatoly Kuznetsov
      16. For the Good of the Cause by Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
      17. Fireflies by Shiva Naipaul
      18. Nightlines by John McGahern
      19. MF by Anthony Burgess
      20. Briefing for a Descent into Hell by Doris Lessing
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    1. Letter from England by Bernard Bergonzi, pp. 374-384
    2. Notes on Contributors, pp. 385-386
    3. Control Burn by Gary Snyder, p. 387
    4. A Cambodian Diary by Joseph Bennett, pp. 388-418
    5. Island Trashfires; Moles in the Whelk Nest; Skin-Flying into the Storm Center by Laurence Lieberman, pp. 419-426
    6. On the Memoirs of Nadezhda Mandelstam by Richard Pevear, pp. 427-440
    7. Vows; The Princess Casamassima by Daniel Hoffman, pp. 441-443
    8. A Hand Wrote That; For Luis Omar Salinas; Poet of La Raza; Angel14 by Philip Levine, pp. 444-445
    9. One of the Seven Sleepers Awakening by Vincent Stewart, p. 446
    10. Moliere's Dom Juan by Irving Singer, pp. 447-460
    11. Vestibule; Leaves from an Herbal by John Peck, pp. 461-462
    12. Come, Sailor by Zulfikar Ghose, pp. 463-464
    13. A Smile (from the Chinese of Hu Shih) by Daniel Bryant, p. 465
    14. Dancing in the Trees and Over the Roofs by Marcia B. Siegel, pp. 466-475
    15. Varieties of Cubism by Charles W. Millard, pp. 476-481
    16. Signor Petri and Monsieur Chabrol: It's Murder by Vernon Young, pp. 482-488
    17. Music and Ballet by B.H. Haggin, pp. 489-498
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      Poetry Chronicle by Richmond Lattimore, pp. 499-510 - 12 Reviews
      1. Spring Shade by Robert Fitzgerald
      2. Selected Poems by Howard Moss
      3. The Will to Change by Adrienne Rich
      4. The Book of Nightmares by Galway Kinnell
      5. Tides by John Montague
      6. Tree Meditation and Others by Alan Stephens
      7. Theseus and Other Poems by Frederick Buell
      8. Pursuit of Honor by L.E. Sissman
      9. Poems and Problems by Vladimir Nabokov
      10. Passions and Ancient Days by C.P. Cavafy
      11. The Homeric Hymns by Charles Boer
      12. Negritude by Norman Shapiro
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      The Second Saddest Story by Roger Sale, pp. 511-518 - 1 Review
      1. The Saddest Story by Arthur Mizener
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      Paracriticism: Its Cause and Cure by Marvin Mudrick, pp. 519-525 - 2 Reviews
      1. The Dismemberment of Orpheus by Ihab Habib Hassan
      2. Liberations by Ihab Hassan
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      Fiction Chronicle by J. Mitchell Morse, pp. 526-540 - 16 Reviews
      1. The Season of the Witch by James Leo Herlihy
      2. Birds of America by Mary McCarthy
      3. Love in the Ruins by Walker Percy
      4. A Journey to Sahalin by James McConkey
      5. An Education in Blood by Richard M. Elman
      6. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
      7. The Weekend Man by Richard B. Wright
      8. Jungle Lovers by Paul Theroux
      9. Getting Off by Don Carpenter
      10. St. Urbain's Horseman by Mordecai Richler
      11. Being There by Jerzy Kosinski
      12. The Promisekeeper by Charles Newman
      13. Voyages by Peter Najarian
      14. The Pagan Rabbi and Other Stories by Cynthia Ozick
      15. Collected Stories by Mary Lavin
      16. The Man Outside by Wolfgang Borchert
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      Pillow Talk by James P. Degnan, pp. 541-544 - 2 Reviews
      1. Supergrow by Benjamin DeMott
      2. Surviving the 70's by Benjamin DeMott
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    Winter 1971 Issue = 19 Articles
    1. Letters to the Editor, pp. 550-556
    2. Notes on Contributors, pp. 557-558
    3. Free Women by Patricia Meyer Spacks, pp. 559-573
    4. Her Time Gone Out of Joint by Eunice Luccock Corfman, pp. 574-601
    5. Re: Femme by Rosellen Brown, pp. 602-621
    6. Les Folies Francaises, ou les Dominos---de Francois Couperin by Richmond Lattimore, pp. 622-625
    7. New Pome by John Logan, pp. 626-632
    8. The Beautiful Acceptance; Summer Storm; Wild Asters; Summer and the Sorgue; For a Polit... by Richard Pevear, pp. 633-637
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      Non-Talking Pictures by Stephen Farber, pp. 638-646 - 2 Reviews
      1. Walkabout (1971 Film) by Nicolas Roeg
      2. Death in Venice (1971 Film) by Luchino Visconti
    10. Theatre by John Simon, pp. 647-654
    11. Cezanne's Progress by Charles W. Millard, pp. 655-659
    12. Music by B.H. Haggin, pp. 660-668
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      Lines Written in Rouen by Vernon Young, pp. 669-686 - 19 Reviews
      1. Brainstorms by Michael Brownstein
      2. Mole Notes by Michael Benedikt
      3. St. Martin's by Robert Creeley
      4. Paper Airplane by Allan Kaplan
      5. The Torches by James Tate
      6. Outlyer and Ghazals by Jim Harrison
      7. Flesh:Dream:Book by Robert Kelly
      8. Against Emptiness by Paul Zweig
      9. The Escape Into You by Marvin Bell
      10. More Under Saturn by William Dickey
      11. Neruda and Vallejo by Robert Bly
      12. Roofs by Stephen Sandy
      13. Selected Poems by Arthur Gregor
      14. Chartres, and Prose Poems by Jean Garrigue
      15. The Night Mirror by John Hollander
      16. Amana Grass by Jon Silkin
      17. Collected Poems and Epigrams by J.V. Cunningham
      18. Transformations by Anne Sexton
      19. Cut of Noon by Frederick Nicklaus
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      Extension and Intention by Robert Martin Adams, pp. 687-695 - 2 Reviews
      1. Natural Supernaturalism by M.H. Abrams
      2. Blindness and Insight by Paul de Man
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      Distant Voices by Guy Davenport, pp. 696-701 - 4 Reviews
      1. Let's Go!/Vamonos Patria a Caminar by Otto Rene Castillo
      2. Configurations by Octavio Paz
      3. Selected Poems of Gabriela Mistral by Doris Dana and Gabriela Mistral
      4. Speech-Grille, and Selected Poems by Paul Celan
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      "The Current State of Criticism" by William H. Pritchard, pp. 702-710 - 4 Reviews
      1. Extraterritorial by George Steiner
      2. What Became of Jane Austen? by Kingsley Amis
      3. The Collected Essays of Leslie Fiedler by Leslie A. Fiedler
      4. Fictions and Events by Warner Berthoff
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      Bearding Conrad by Marvin Mudrick, pp. 711-715 - 2 Reviews
      1. Conrad's Eastern World by Norman Sherry
      2. Conrad's Western World by Norman Sherry
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      Fiction Chronicle by Gerald Weales, pp. 716-731 - 7 Reviews
      1. The Last and the First by I. Compton-Burnett
      2. The Whirligig of Time by Isabel Bolton
      3. Meet Me in the Green Glen by Robert Penn Warren
      4. Cancerqueen, and Other Stories by Tommaso Landolfi
      5. Fire Sermon by Wright Morris
      6. The Tenants by Bernard Malamud
      7. The Blood Oranges by John Hawkes
    19. Index to Volume XXIV, pp. 732-756
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