Great Regulars: It may be true that throughout his

seventy-year-long career [Richard] Eberhart took advantage of the artist's prerogative to fail. The powerful sentiment in "The Fort and the Gate"--"I embrace the future to be the future/There is nothing so true and real as change"--seems to suggest that he was aware of this privilege and his manipulation of it. More often that not, Eberhart's verse confirms Herodotus's dictum that "Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks".

The Fort and the Gate
For Machi Razi reading Cavafy

from The Times Literary Supplement: Poem of the Week: The Fort and the Gate

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