"August marks the centenary of the poem that first bought Dorothy Parker to the attention of the reading public....The first of these 'hate songs' in Vanity Fair introduced her trademark cynicism and caustic wit."

via JSTOR DAILY

"Before the first Earth Day, way back in 1967, Merwin was speaking for animals and for biodiversity, and sounding a warning of the coming human extinction. Now as we live into the age of the Anthropocene, more and more likely to be the last age to be given a name, his warning is no less grave. Was he heard then? Is he heard now? Perhaps not widely, but how much does that matter? Merwin speaks prophetically and politically, still, addressing everyone, one at a time.”