Word: excremental
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...resurrection." In practice this seems to make Editor Williams feel that unless a poem tells its readers something disastrous or resurrectional it is not a poem. His anthology contains much overwrought poetic material that could all suitably be grouped under Contributor John Berryman's observation: "Whippoorwill calling, excrement falling." But the book also contains very fine poems by R. P. Blackmur, Marianne Moore, Delmore Schwartz, others...
...these thorough precautions, there has been no large-scale typhus epidemic in louse-ridden Poland, although the disease has flickered there, as it has in China, for many years. Warsaw has suffered from typhoid fever, a disease quite different from typhus, transmitted by typhoid bacilli which lodge in human excrement, food, water...
...were locked in a stable where there was not even room to sit down. There was fixed for their natural needs a corner of the stable, and a priest, Casimir Stepczynski, parish priest of Bydgoszcz, was forced together with a Jew to carry away with his hands human excrement-work which was fatiguing due to the great number of prisoners. The vicar, Adam Musial, who wanted to aid the venerable priest, was brutally beaten with a rifle butt...