Norman Mailer: Works and Days

Greasing the Radar; A Study of Cancer in English Grammar

Two Mailer poems in Cleft, the Edinburgh literary magazine, Vol. 2 (May 1964). Per Lennon, Mailer may have published one or more poems in an earlier issue of Cleft.

“Greasing the Radar”; “A Study of Cancer in English Grammar.” Cleft (Edinburgh) 2 (May 1964), 8–9. Two poems. Per Lennon: “Mailer may have published one or more poems in an earlier issue of Cleft.” Mailer’s Edinburgh connection — first the 1962 International Writers’ Conference (62.24), now the 1964 Cleft poems — runs to a small Scottish literary-magazine following.

First published: 1964-05
Form: poem
Lennon & Lennon: 64.14
Cite as: /works/1964-05-greasing-the-radar
Last updated: 2026-05-27