SARGASSO


 In the poems of Joseph Linsowski, an ironic tone at
times resembling the T. S. Eliot of "Journey of the
Magi" or the Auden of "Musee de Beaux Arts" appears.
Lisowski's two poems dealing with incidents in the life
of Jesus--"The Presentation" imaginatively reconstructs
the recognition scene with old Simeon at the temple,
and "Agony in the Garden" contemplates the night in
Gethsemane--both reconstruct weighty events from the
point of view of participants unaware of the moment's
significance. The drama of both incidents is heightened,
as in "Journey of the Magi, "by the very human reactions
of the non-divine observers.



 Vincent Jubilee
 University of Puerto Rico
 Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico