October 29, 2000 All Eyes on the Snow Globe In this poet's work, fate can determine and time hardly matters. Related Links First Chapter: 'Supernatural Love' First Chapter: 'The Throne of Labdacus' By ADAM KIRSCH SUPERNATURAL LOVE Poems 1976-1992. By Gjertrud Schnackenberg. 278 pp. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux. Paper. $19. THE THRONE OF LABDACUS By Gjertrud Schnackenberg. 101 pp. New York: ...

The following poem is part 1 of a series of poems in memory of the poet's father; it constitute the first section, Laughing With One Eye (1977), of Gjertrud Schnackenberg's first published book of poems, Portraits and Elegies (1982). Now republished, with two of Schnackenberg's other books, it opens Supernatural Love: Poems 1976-1992 (New York: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2000) -- a steal at $19.00.

Preview of an article by Daniel Mendelsohn from The New York Review of Books, March 29, 2001 ...