Reviews

Readers who enjoy the visceral in poetry will laud this fifth volume of Bosquet's verse to be published in America. His meta-irony, debt to Surrealism, and knowledge of American poetry make his work far from parochial. ``In Beaujon Hospital, Paris'' makes one of Bosquet's strongest statements on the human condition. Eventually, however, one tires of his constant preoccupation with bodily organs. ``In vain I promise my organs a better future:/ they all revolt./ I'm my body's slave.'' Bosquet, though a learned and celebrated figure, is still something less than major when contrasted with the many past luminaries who were his friends. For large literary collections. Marc Widershien, State Lib. of Mass.