A Song for Jacques Barzun

by Ken Kleinfeld.

Go to song (Click on the button for "Waterman").

"Waterman"

Jacques Barzun
Has tied in some
Waterman gateways
To help mind make for someone.

Boy in France
Then World War I
Dammed that hamlet stream
Of fertile generation.

Soon New York
Took on Barzun,
The head gardener
To a broad way that plays on.

Boy in France
Then World War I...

Jacques Barzun
Has tied in tons,
Waterman gateways
To direct mind to the fun.

© 2008 Ken Kleinfeld

At the same site is another Barzun-inspired song, "Isn't Abbey Strange."
 

Ozick and Wieseltier on Trilling

Cynthia Ozick, "Novel or Nothing".

Leon Wieseltier, "The Shrinker".

Both articles appeared in The New Republic.