THE DOUBLE AXE (149 pp.)Robinson JeffersRandom House ($2.75).
The poet who wishes not to play games with words,
His affair being to awake dangerous images
And call the hawks . . .
Readers of this book of poems are advised in a highly unusual (and ungrammatical) publisher's note that Random House does not agree with some of the political views pronounced by the poet Robinson Jeffers. When those hawks are being called, Random House wants it known that its own big mouth was shut.
Jeffers' political views are, in fact, stark and skinny as a buzzard's...
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