Word: flesh
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...best poems are those which satisfy both the ??? "to make the word flesh," as he puts it, and ??? hear the body talking," In their delicate physi???, these poems are also some of the most per??? in the collection. For if Loewinsohn's poetry ??? reads like conversation, these are the poems ???ant to be spoken in whispers...
Exploding Tank. Yet the previous voyages had seemed so effortless, the voyagers so confident, the supporting apparatus of men and equipment so efficient, the goals so bold and growing ever bolder, that a degree of hubris had developed. It was not so much frail human flesh against the vast challenge of space as it was technicians remembering the sequence of switches to throw. The world could be forgiven a touch of ennui...
...earlier works, it was tortured and twisted, shorn of limbs, reduced to a skeleton, provoking comparisons with Dürer and Cranach, Redon and Bellmer. Death, he seemed to say, is in all life, deformity in all beauty, and behind the erotic daydream is the ever-present nightmare of flesh doomed to decay. Today, his figures appear more whole, more sensuous, more magnetic. Love has banished dreadful death...
...Heaven! is Mano's third book (Bishop's Progress, Horn) and his third troubled study of guided or misguided faith confronting worldliness. A wise and gifted novelist, Mano pierces real human flesh with his intellectual thorns...
What I see in nightmares at night, in case you're interested, is faces. Mostly kids. One of a kid rolling over andover on the ground, trying to extinguish the burning napalm, his flesh turning to charcoal underneath...