Books: Poetry

THE MAN COMING TOWARDS You—Oscar Williams—Oxford ($2).

One day in 1936 a smart, middleaged, successful advertising-man, who had turned his hand to conducting publicity campaigns for Florida politicos, set out to drive the 212-mile stretch between Jacksonville and Tampa. He reached Tampa alive but different: on the way he had had a dazzling vision of life as it could be, had said good-by to the beliefs which until then had stimulated his business career. Thinking he might have gone crazy, he consulted doctors, acquaintances, himself. But nothing relieved his perplexity until one day...