xiv, 272 pp. Very Good. Contents: Introduction; Thomas Merton and his Poetry; The Pleasures of Reading the Classics in Translation; Inhale and Exhale: A Letter from William Saroyan to Henry Miller; New Words for Old: Notes on Experimental Writing; William Carlos Williams and the Making of Paterson: A Memoir; Translators of the Troubadours: Pound & Blackburn; Richard Ellman's Michaux; The Greenberg Manuscripts; About Gertrude Stein; Montagu O'Reilly and Wayne Andrews; Afterword to The Life Before Us by Romaine Gary.