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...most impressive poetry in the May Advocate is John Allman's. He has a highly functional sense of rhythm and meter which he combines with a capacity for descriptive precision. In "Cambridge Spring" he uses both skills to recreate the voice of a stunned narrator describing a sudden transition of feeling from understated calm to vivid panic...
...Allman tends to write about emotional issues in immediate and concrete situations; William Mullen writes more abstractly, using specific description only to illustrate his direct statements. Mullen's metrical abilities and the absolute clarity of his narration enable him to write poetry about feelings which lie almost outside the capacities of a poetic medium...
Maeve Kinkead '68 and John Allman '67 will read from their poetry at 8 tonight in the Straus Common Room. It will be the sixth in the Advocate's weekly series...
...Place for Us" by John Allman traces the movement of the poet's mind as it leaps back and forth between an immediate situation and an ominous vision. As he sits in a restaurant the poet embarks on unpredictable imaginative flights which confuse him and embarrass the girl sitting next to him. By placing the real and the imagined events side-by-side, Allman manages to capture the suddenness of the mental fluctuations wthout imitating their incoherence: I order coffee...
Among the other actors, Judith Namias and John Allman rise above their compatriots. Jane Jackson makes the tedious Lady Would-Be into a funny but off-times unintelligible character. Paul Gomberg struggles vainly to overcome his costume, a purplish concoction which, like most of the costumes, doesn't quite make...