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A Poet's Progress
Swenson, May | June 11, 1955 issue

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This article focuses on the book "Wilderness Stair. Poems 1938-1954," by Ben Belitt. Ben Belitt's second book of verse presents a new and higher platform of poetic development. The first part opens with Dance Piece, from which was taken the theme of Martha Graham's choreography, Errand into the Maze, and ends with Nightpiece, both are excellent formal lyrics out of the poet's soul-observatory. Between these Belitt has inserted a "travelogue" of poems with flashing impressions of places from Mexico to Manhattan.

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WILDERNESS Stair. Poems 1938-1954 (Book); BOOKS; BELITT, Ben; AUTHORS; POETS; POETRY
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