This early poem by the American poet, novelist, and critic Babette Deutsch (1895–1982) purports to turn the notion of the love poem on its head. Deutsch’s speaker dwells on what goes unspoken between ...

To me the publication of Yarmolinsky’s introduction and Babette Deutsch’s translations of Pushkin, on the occasion of his centenary, is a calamity both in literature and in our cultural relations with ...

IN SUCH A NIGHT—Babette Deutsch—John Day ($2). To perceive is genius; to ignore, divine. Miss Deutsch (Mrs. Avrahm Yarmolinsky), poetic genius, sorely lacks divinity. She would wring the last drop of ...