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The Poetry of Richard Milhous Nixon Compiled by Jack Margolis Cliff House Books, unpaged, $1

Here are no sonnets for an idle hour. Stark, terse, hard bitten, cunningly disequilibrated—tiptoe, in fact, on the needlepoint of our century’s anguish— these poems speak to and for the thwarted Tamburlaine that lurks in the. psyche of urban America. Make no mistake, ours are not easy times. Old certainties dissolve. On every front—ecology, government, Russia, Raquel Welch —we face both ways while poet Nixon speaks for all of us:

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The Poetry of Richard Milhous Nixon Compiled by Jack Margolis Cliff House Books, unpaged, $1

Here are no sonnets for an idle hour. Stark, terse, hard bitten, cunningly disequilibrated—tiptoe, in fact, on the needlepoint of our century’s anguish— these poems speak to and for the thwarted Tamburlaine that lurks in the. psyche of urban America. Make no mistake, ours are not easy times. Old certainties dissolve. On every front—ecology, government, Russia, Raquel Welch —we face both ways while poet Nixon speaks for all of us: