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Archer in the Marrow: The Applewood Cycles, 1967-1987, by Peter Viereck (Norton, 260 pp., $14.95)

THERE are two Peter Vierecks—or are there? In his astonishing poetic sequence Archer in the Marrow, the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet deals with favorite concerns in a style familiar to those who know Viereck primarily as a political polemicist.

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About the Author

Michael Lind

Mr. Lind is a visiting professor at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin and the author of The American Way of Strategy.

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Archer in the Marrow: The Applewood Cycles, 1967-1987, by Peter Viereck (Norton, 260 pp., $14.95)

THERE are two Peter Vierecks—or are there? In his astonishing poetic sequence Archer in the Marrow, the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet deals with favorite concerns in a style familiar to those who know Viereck primarily as a political polemicist.

ML

About the Author

Michael Lind

Mr. Lind is a visiting professor at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin and the author of The American Way of Strategy.