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While that is going on aboard the Emperor's Death Star?a souped-up version of the one that Luke destroyed in Star Wars?his friends are confronting legions of imperial storm troopers on the green, forested Moon of Endor, thousands of miles away. Their new allies are a tribe of primitive Ewoks, pugnacious little warriors who look like cuddly Teddy bears but have the combative and fearless temperaments of Yorkshire terriers...
...longer poems are better, however. "Die Stunde zu Endor," "The Hour at Endor," is a long, rambling plaintive piece, filled with biblical allusions and curiously moving. Her series of "Choruses" sums up the spirit of longing and sorrow which is the backbone of her whole poetic work, and most of the poems display the marvelous strength of her use of the language...
THERE IS something Harvard steals from you; maybe it is whatever was once heroic in you, perhaps it is what was once honest. Whatever it is, once it is gone you have become like the First Minister in Howard Nemerov's Endor, who is told by the witch that men of his sort "though they have lives and deaths, never have fates." They "have their cleverness instead: their light, dry minds which blow in the wind of fortune...
...fascism annoy me," writes Nicolson, "but there is something like a fine retriever dog about his eyes." Laborite Clement Attlee looks "like a snipe pretending to be an eagle," Anthony Eden is "fairly wobbling with charm," Lord Beveridge, father of the welfare state, looks "like the witch of Endor...
...woman and the creative forces that shaped her art. Beginning with the days when Graham performed tangos and apache dances in the Greenwich Village Follies, Leatherman traces her development through her early-American period (she is a descendant of Miles Standish) to her most recent The Witch of Endor, which reflects her current preoccupation with the themes of old age and death. Graham, reports Leatherman, is a voracious reader, pours through volumes of philosophy, poetry, mysticism and fairy tales, looking for a magic phrase like "cave of the heart" that will act as a catalyst for a new work...