"The Cave" was first publ...

"The Cave" was first published in the Summer 1975 special issue, "Talking American Poetry" and was later substantially revised for publication in C K Williams's With Ignorance and in various after books, including Poems 1963-1983 and culled Poems. At the poet's entreaty we have included the revised version here. WILLIAMS lately wrote to us about the circumstances which l him to write the poem:

I wanted to write a metrical composition about the fact that I not at any time seemed to see anything that I was suppos to see: not at any time a naked woman in a window, a married pair making ...