To make the child in your own image is a capital crime, for your image is not worth repeating. The child knows this and you know it. Consequently you hate each other.

More recent editions of his work include The Wild Card: Selected Poems Early and Late (1998) and Selected Poems (2003). In his later work he experimented with more open forms beginning with The Bourgeois Poet (1964) and continuing with White-Haired Lover (1968). The influences of Walt Whitman D.

He was appointed the fifth Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1946.