Word: firman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...past and present editors of Audience have Harvard or Radcliffe affiliations. We have published Harvard undergrads in the past and will do so again. But where are all the good manuscripts? Nothing gladdens old people's hearts (some of us are almost forty) like finding a brilliant new writer.... Firman Houghton '41, Editor...
Rounding out the poetry selections are four satires by Firman Houghton--those on Whitman and Houseman are especially funny--and an amusing "sick, sick, sick" poem by Daniel Langton called "A Modern Poem." They are skillful space fillers. Anne Sexton has five poems printed: all are sentimental--"And that's the Way it Was" inversely so. "The Exorcists" redeems itself in places and "Hutch" looks as if it ought to sound nice...
...Firman Houghton (according to the credits, he "writes poetry and plays") contributes a series of five fair poems, devolving from fractured form and bird imagery to a chair-ridden poor cousin of Gerontion, grieving over his memories. The best of the five is a childhood recollection called "Rocker." (Four poems and two stories in Audience come from the childhood kettle of perceptive innocence...