• At the Evening Cotillions, 1964
• William Logan (bio)

Ah, my radical friend. Later,it was still the sixties,the soi-disant and distant sixties.The long-haired sixties,

where every pair of shoes was a protest.I stole my parents' half-wrecked Mercedesto visit, sticking the long hours northto Springfield. I spent the weekend alone,

watching strangers shoot up.We spoke a common language, where nounswere verbs, and verbs philosophy.I remember the Thursday evenings

we clung to each otherrather than an indifferent partner.The last time I saw you, you had your fistin the air. Ah, power to … someone or other.

The foxtrot, the waltz, the bossa nova. [End Page 713]

William Logan's most recent book of poetry is Rift of Light (2017), and his most recent book of criticism is Broken Ground: Poetry and the Demon of History (2021).

• 晚间舞会，1964
• 威廉·洛根（简介）

啊，我激进的朋友。后来，还是六十年代，遥远的六十年代。六十年代的长发，

每双鞋都是一种抗议。我偷了父母那辆半残的奔驰来探望，花了很长时间北上斯普林菲尔德。我一个人度过了周末，

看着陌生人开枪。我们说着共同的语言，名词是动词，动词是哲学。我记得周四晚上

我们彼此依偎，而不是冷漠的伙伴。上次我见到你时，你举起了拳头。啊，对……某人或其他人的权力。

狐步舞、华尔兹、波萨诺瓦舞。[完第713页]

威廉·洛根最新的诗集是《光之裂痕》（2017 年），他最新的批评书是《破碎的土地：诗歌与历史的恶魔》（2021 年）。