| Author Quoted | Carlos Fuentes |
| Title Quoted | Change of Skin |
| Date (Year/Month/Day) | 1968/02/29 |
| Imprint | [S.l.] : Farrar Straus & Giroux. [s.d.] |
| Quotation | Tried some books. Carlos Fuentes' Change of Skin, new, from Farrar, Straus & Giroux "”starts out lovely, fuzzy, but doesn't hold me. I guess it is a good job but it doesn't hold me. What do I care about those people? Very good, though, the new Robert Duncan, Bending the Bow, from New Directions, with a fine terse, complex introduction, putting it all in a setting"”and also a great poem on Christ in the Garden"”like Rilke. Also, the new Gary Snyder"”strong, clear, definite poetry, a man of solid experience. No faking. David Ignatow"”a good poet but describing a person that stands between himself and lif"”and on which sometimes are projected rimal murders. He screams. The screams are unreal (Rescue the Dead). I notice in the poems of Vassar girls a hell of a lot of death wish. |
| Quotation Source | The Other Side of the Mountain: The End of the Journey. The Journals of Thomas Merton, Volume 7, 1967-1968.; Edited by Patrick Hart, O.C.S.O. / San Francisco : Harper Collins. 1998, p. 60 |
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