Word: leubdorf
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...ramblers and jugglers John Leubdorf (to borrow from his name the "S" he neglects to place in "Nietzche") is the most adroit magician and so the most irritating, for one feels that if he stopped sliding loosely from metaphor to metaphor he might make something of the more melodic lines of "End of Eroica." On the other hand, looking at "Nietzche," I'm not so sure. What is one to make...
...poems of Mrs. Elizabeth Jackson Barker, which from their position at the beginning of the issue are clearly intended to be the Advocate's star turn, show a smoother, firmer, and less meandering use of language than Leubdorf's. But here too one finds the same awkward and acutely self conscious toying with metaphysics. One poem she begins: "The numbered summers fuse to form a tense,/Past-present: separate identities/Abandoned on the beach..."; another "A small departure will elude excuse,/The implication of its vagrancy/Impugn the settlement of old abuse/That makes of larger vice good company." Mrs. Barker presents these...
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