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...insist on producing and after clearing Plath of the usually valid suspicions brought to confessional poetry, Leib makes a hopeful statement about the pointlessness of making apologies for poetry when "the art awaits." But he obviously isn't too happy about what poets are writing, and neither is Richard Dey. In the issue Dey has five poems (the best an elegy for Pound that redeems Pound's memory very satisfyingly against the odds of his political faults) and a manifesto for poets. Titled "On the spot" to echo Pound's "Date Line" of the thirties, the manifesto begins like this...
...Come, Makers. Be makers of our own Age. Be obstreperous." It goes on, in a kind of heroic nautical language of personified abstractions ("Mediocrity," "Presence," "Vision,") to call poets passionately to action as artists and leaders of the age. Dey's analysis is that too many poets are bored, sloppy, uncommitted, dispassionate about their work, and unconscious of the role they might be playing in society as artists; his desperate advice is to re-establish old values...
...Irving's talents as a fabricator, all else followed. Long before Hemingway, Mark Twain's Nigger Jim knew that the Hemingway hero is not to be defined in terms of yachts and blondes. "Trash," said Jim, "is what people is dat puts dirt on de head er dey fren's." Otto Friedrich
...board Global Flight 502, non stop from Salt Lake City to Minneapolis, are an ulcerous businessman (Ross Elliott) and his steadfast wife (Jeanne Grain); a jolly jazz musician (Roosevelt Grier); a United States Senator (Wal ter Pidgeon) and his son (Nicholas Hammond); a teeny-bopper (Susan Dey); a young wife on the verge of giving birth (Mariette Hartley); the head stewardess (Yvette Mimieux), once in love with the captain (Charlton Heston), now carrying on with the copilot (Mike Henry); and a certain Sergeant Jerome K. Weber (James Brolin), a bug-eyed benny popper who swills brandy, talks crazy and keeps...
Tomorrow, Richard Dey brings his experience as a writer for the U.S. Army to bear on the kind of poetry produced under the literary constraints of the Soviet Union