[Andrew Mandelbaum]

Originally Posted by Julie Steiner

Richard Wilbur's endnote on this poem in his Collected Poems 1943-2004 may be of interest:

Interesting note, Julie. Whether Wilbur can be taken seriously as a poet with a conscience regarding those events depends on what else he did to oppose the murderous War in question. If he simply wrote that and nothing else then I wouldn't think much of it. I have zero knowledge and zero opinions about him or his work. I would be happy to hear about his poetry in the face of all that blood.