Typescript draft of "The Poet as Novelist" by Mona Van Duyn. Van Duyn reviews Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing by May Sarton, Journal of the Fictive Life by Howard Nemerov, The (Diblos) Notebook by James Merrill, The Escape Artist by David Wagoner, Black Light by Galway Kinnell, and The System of Dante's Hell by LeRoi Jones.