Word: deadness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Capitol marshals took the placards bearing the dead men's names and stuffed them into rough pine caskets. They took the candles we had carried so they could be used again...
...dead soldiers were Earl Patterson and Patrick Haggerty. The only people who heard us shout their names at the White House were others in the March Against Death. And they were too busy trying to remember their own dead men's names to notice us. It was so hard to remember their names...
...essay called "The Dead World and the Live World." written for The Sixties. Bly complained about the refusal of our literature to "shed its skin." to talk about what wasn't "exclusively human.": "One can predict first of all that such a nation will bomb foreign populations very easily, since it has no sense of anything real beyond its own ego." To this insight Bly has brought the evidence of poets in translation, publishing in small editions the work of Spanish. German, and Scandinavian writers who were receiving little or no attention in this country. It is from poets like...
...years ago. the best poets in America were still insisting on their own exclusivity; erudite and brilliant teachers the generation which included John Berryman, Delmore Schwartz, and Randall Jarrell were acknowledged as a tradition in themselves. Berryman still is one, but Jarrell and Schwartz, along with Theodore Roethke, are dead and, since their deaths. American poetry has been seized by an urgency other than the one to which they devoted their lives...
...play itself: it was once thought that if one passed through the dark night of the soul, salvation was at hand, but. if Morning, Noon, and Night is any indication, for America that dark night may prove a dead...