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The Missouri Review

Nonfiction | June 01, 1984

Reflections on a Year in Harvard's Woodberry Reading Room

Michael Milburn

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Last summer a bronze sculpture by Henry Moore was installed in a corner of Harvard Yard outside the Lamont Library. For a month workers rehearsed placements and then roped off a small area to direct the sinking of the base.  Two forms were set down, securely but not permanently, and the roped removed.  In the sculpture’s first hours, passers by approached, inspected, and cautiously touched as the placers watched from a distance.  In its first year the work has become an extension of the scenery.  All fall and spring students have studied and sunned there, casually hugging the forms.

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7.3 (Spring 1984)

Featuring work by Russell Banks, Bruce Beasley, George Bogin, Christopher Buckley, Dino Campana, Rene Char, Fred Chappell, Reed Way Dasenbrock, Glover Davis, Robb Forman Dew, Katherine Estill, Kathy Fagan, Carol Frost, Margo Glantz, Daniel Halpern, Laura Hendrie, Katherine Kane, Hank Lazer, Michael Milburn, Ricardo Pau-Llosa, Omar Pound, Pattiann Rogers, Philippe Soupault… as well as an interview with Charles Simic and a special feature on Tennessee Williams.

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