>  > Pound Folks:  My aging memory can't recall the poem alluded to below
>  > by Robert Lowell's former secretary. Who remembers off hand?:

As it happens, the passage is found at
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/e/q141627.html
This page gives no source that I can find, but it sounds like it
comes from the 1913 "Patria Mia."

And New York is the most beautiful city in the world? It is not far
from it. No urban night is like the night there... Squares after
squares of flame, set up and cut into the aether. Here is our poetry,
for we have pulled down the stars to our will.

--

Timothy Materer, 107 Tate, English Department
University of Missouri, Columbia MO 65211
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The James Merrill Electronic Discussion Forum
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