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...Egil ("Bud") Krogh, 42, Ehrlichman's White House assistant and member of plumbers. Pleaded guilty to charges stemming from burglary of office of Ellsberg's psychiatrist. Served four months. Taught government and law at San Francisco's Golden Gate University before regaining right to practice law in 1980. Now an attorney in Seattle. Says Watergate taught him "the limitations of presidential power. It was a positive experience, but I don't recommend...
...University Hall to New Haven: "Hello, Bart? Yeah, Roso here. Hey Bart, we're looking real weak over in English and we're gonna need some kind of utility art historian for the next few seasons. Whaddaya say you give us Bloom and Scully and we'll send over Bud Bailyn, a little cash, and a couple of assistant professors to be named later...
...discussion moved effortlessly to the Mets. For the first time since I've been here, someone else broached the subject for me. I leisurely went to the fridge for another cold one, kicking over an ashtray and a half-full bottle of Bud. I was trying to stay cool but my buzz was getting the better...
WHICH IS NOT TO SAY the prose poems lack structure. The adjectives are often extravagant--"hilarious and hellish little boys," he writes in "Old Bud"--but they serve to inject the poet's perspective into what is initially a third-person description. And while some of Wright's speech-like rhetorical devices might water down a poem, they add vigor to the paragraph forms. The packing together of lyrical sounds--as well as the repetition of words--creates a strong sense of unity in poems like "In Gallipoli...
Wright does tend sometimes to toss over his shoulder the wealth of material he sees. In "Old Bud," he writes, "His unbelievable Adam's apple purpled and honed like the burl on the root of a white oak, and he sang his God Damns in despair." Now you see it, now you' don't--the white oak disappears, and the central character. Old Bud, who does has the potential to run wild and become larger than the poem, twists into another image. In cases like these, the prose poem proves even more confining for Wright than the traditional form; everything...