ABSTRACT
For over 40 years, Robert Mezey has quietly developed hiscraft as a poet, despite a determined dearth of critical attention. Mezey's early works, in the late 1950s and early 1960s, revealed a fresh voice attempting to examine a wide range of different human experiences while operating within the confines of more traditional verse. In The Wandering Jew (1960), the title poem examines such issues as spirituality and sexuality:
I was adrift And much in need of something I had seen.
