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Divorced. Burleigh Grimes, 45, crack spitball pitcher of the 19205; from his second wife, Laura Virginia Grimes ; in Union, Mo. Charge: "general indignities." Died. Mrs. Charles W. Gamble ("Mollie Ticklepitcher"), 51; of cancer; in Jasper, Tenn. A tank town actress, she hoaxed Phillips Lord into letting her speak over his We, the People radio program by passing herself off as a backwoods midwife (TIME...
...myself, I do not feel quite as confident about Laura Riding's status as you do. What's the difference? What you said . . . was a great boost for a viewpoint which it has taken some of us a third of a century |to present...
Probably the most difficult and at the same time the most lucid of present-day poets is Laura Riding. Manhattan-born, Laura Riding at the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War was settled in Mallorca, where, with Robert Graves, she published books of the Seizin Press. Forced to leave the island at a few hours' notice, she is now living in Brittany until Mallorca returns to its normal ways. An indefatigable worker, she has written nine books of poetry, six of criticism, a novel. This month her Collected Poems (Random House, $4) was published...
...poet committed to the task of making words make sense, Laura Riding prefaces her poems with one of the most straightforward yet complete declarations of a poet's purpose yet published. "A poem is an uncovering of truth of so fundamental and general a kind that no other name besides poetry is adequate except truth. . . . Truth is the result when reality as a whole is uncovered by those faculties which apprehend in terms of entirety, rather than in terms merely of parts. The person who writes a poem for the right reasons has felt the need of exercising such...
...reader who expects these poems "to evoke in him the flattering sensation of understanding more than he knows" will soon be dashed. But a reader who approaches these poems as literal communications may at length understand them. Readers, says Laura Riding, are accustomed to the kind of poetry written in what she calls "a tradition of male monologue." Laura Riding's poems are no monologues: they are direct communications of personal knowledge from herself to the reader. These poems make such unfaltering sense that most readers' attention will falter before them...