Settling In

Nothing like squeezing in a post after lunch.  So I'm back.

Do you want to dig a hole and refill it?  Do you want to do that once every day for seven days?  Now's your chance.  Not only will you spend seven hours digging a hole, then filling it in, seven days in a row, you'll celebrate "the millennium of the female and the anti-phallus" by de-recting a public monument.  This in one of "Six Actions for New York City" taking place from May 1 to June 2.  If you're not craving something arduous (physically), there are other activites which might need your participation.

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Washington Post Book World tells us how it really feels: “…the new, gorgeously bound Collected Poems, 1956-1998 promises to prove [Herbert] not merely the best Polish writer in recent memory but one of the most impressive poets of the later 20th century…leaves no doubt about the place of Herbert’s work in 20th century letters, which rivals that of W. H. Auden or Elizabeth Bishop in its originality, imaginative breadth and humane vigilance.”