Word: deadness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...woman, swathed in white sheets, who Arthur Fuller assumed was his mother. Dr. Schroeder assumed that Arthur Fuller was the Type IV donor he wanted. He pumped Arthur Fuller's Type II blood into Mrs. Hayden's Type IV veins. In a few hours she was dead...
Situated on a ridge of rock that rises above the Passaic, N. J. meadows is the suburban town of Rutherford. Rising above the dead level of contemporary U. S. poetry is William Carlos Williams, one of the town's busiest doctors. A worshiper of beauty and music in a town that is short on both, he jots down poems in any free moment that his medical practice affords. Last month appeared his Complete Collected Poems (New Directions, $3). Unlike the run of poets, Williams does not use his poetry as an escape from his cramped environment...
...tangle of the Civil War. As citizens the agrarians think they can tie that thread into modern life, as poets they feel that the thread has gone for good. In Lee in the Mountains (Houghton Mifflin, $2), a book of short narrative poems, Davidson's heroes are dead men, whose heroism he tries to embalm in lifelike verses. Sample (on Andrew Jackson's statue in Nashville...
Despite Donald Davidson's sincerity and competence, his attempts to revive a live present by hypodermic injections of a dead past are poeticulous...
There is nothing of the dead past about Kenneth Fearing. This month he published his third book of poems, Dead Reckoning (Random House, $1.25). Kenneth Fearing, in his 29 free-verse lyrics, writes about now and his anger...