Word: grenier
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Also arriving are Charles V. Hamilton, co-author with Stokely Carmichael of Black Power; Richard M. Scammon, election consultant to the National Broadcasting Company; and John E. Grenier, executive director of the Republican National Committee in the Goldwater campaign...
...your state all the way from Maine to California." Ironically, the Wallace presence atop the party ticket helped sweep Democratic Senator John J. Sparkman, a liberal by Alabama standards and no admirer of the Georgeen gambit, to an unexpectedly easy win over Republican John Grenier, 36, who masterminded Goldwater's Southern sweep...
...returns as of 2:30 a.m. this morning. * asterisk indicates incumbent. U.S. House figures indicate change in party make-up of state's delegation to the U.S. House of Representatives. ALABAMA GOVERNOR 78% of the vote Wallace (D) 451,000 Martin (R) 216,000 U.S. SENATOR Sparkman (D)* (winner) Grenier...
Goldfarb composes in breath-length lines -- lines that carry their own immediate weight. Robert Grenier's lines deny that weight exists; they are pure activity. Quoting him is unfair without quoting entirely one of the six poems included -- all, I think, written since he left Cambridge for the Iowa Workshop, from whence he travels this fall to Europe on an Amy Lowell Fellowship -- blut space won't permit it. "For Donald Justice," perhaps the best, is infinitely deeper and wholly more ambitious than early Grenier poems, which tended to be terse conversational fragments of point-blank incorporations of the physical...
...little difficult to suggest what it is that Grenier has accomplished, just as it was once difficult to understand what he promised. In a way, he fulfills William Carlos Williams' example and Charles Olson's precept together (Projective Verse , 1959: "A poem is energy transferred from where the poet got it, by way of the poem to, and all the way over to, the reader.... Form is never more than an extension of content.... One perception must immediately and directly lead to a further...."). But he is wholly sui generis; his present work seems to be of infinite potential...