Word: flesh
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fact it was not appropriate that this matter reach the newspaper, but since it has I will explain what only I can explain. I enclosed a copy of a draft of "All Flesh" in a personal letter to Sara Binder, sent to her residence, not her office, for her personal attention. I can of course, in retrospect, understand that, as Poetry Editor of the Advocate, she plausibly (but mistakenly) assumed that I wished it considered for publication. This idea was unequivocally not in my mind at the time. My act was, as it were, a simple "professional gesture...
Sara Binder '77, Advocate poetry editor, said yesterday that "All Flesh," a poem by Jeffrey Gustavson '76, had been typeset for publication but will now be taken out of the magazine...
...knee; still extant figuratively in the kitchen, as in "housewife's _______," and in the movie house, as in Claire's _______; also still virile verbally in compounds like " _______ jerk " and " _______deep " and in relating measurement, as in "_______ -high to a grasshopper"; but generally not seen in the flesh since around 1970, when it was flaunted by trend-trippers from Carnaby Street to cannery...
...face of it, a stroke by stroke story of a copulation is exactly as absurd as a chew by chew account of the consumption of a chicken's wing." Instead of their lovers, Gass wants writers to caress their language: "It's not the word made flesh we want in writing, in poetry and fiction, but the flesh made word." In Gass's view, the truly "blue" writers are not those who flaunt explicitness but those whose works demonstrate "love lavished on speech of any kind, regardless of content and intention...
Only about one-tenth of the American voters will have seen Gerald Ford or Jimmy Carter in the flesh when the polls open. In most minds, the two men are special creations from the flickering, two-dimensional electronic screen and the printed page. They are light and shadow, fragments of sound...