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...With or Without Roses (Doubleday; $3.95), a collection of 63 of her verses, Mrs. Louchheim shows the influence of her favorite portrait poets, Edwin Arlington Robinson and Edgar Lee Masters, but displays a sharp, sometimes biting, always knowing wit that is all her own. Her subjects, readers will find, are anonymous, but nowhere is she more on target than in "The Bureaucrat...
...Goethe could feel just as much at home at a civil servant's desk as in a poet's leafy glade. No more. Washington, no less than other world capitals, is a city of prose-in triplicate, quadruplicate, or burnt brown Thermo-Fax. In such surroundings, Katie Louchheim stands out as clearly as a lyric line, for she is one of the last survivors of a lost race: the poet-bureaucrat or bureaucrat-poet. Which comes first is hard to say, for last week, just a few days after she was promoted to Deputy Assistant Secretary of State...
Born in New York nearly 63 years ago, Katie Louchheim went to Washington in 1934 when her banker husband joined Franklin Roosevelt's Securities and Exchange Commission. She started work as a volunteer staffer for the League of Women Voters in the late '30s, gradually shifting to partisan work for the Democrats. By 1948 she was a delegate to the Democratic Convention; in 1952-after a bruising fight -she won a place on the Democratic National Committee, and in 1956 was elected vice chairman. President Ken nedy appointed her a State Department consultant on women's activities...
...Louchheim started composing poems for her family, to wrap up special sentiment with Christmas or birthday presents. Most of her writing is done late at night at a desk in her Georgetown bedroom or on holiday at the family's summer house on Cape Cod, but poetry has become far more than a hobby. "My psyche demands it," she says. "It's my escape hatch...
...from women-particularly in blue-collar areas. While their husbands worry about property devaluation, the women, who must spend most of their time at home, are more concerned with the schooling and safety of their children-and with their own safety. Besides, says Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Katie Louchheim, a former vice chairman of the Democratic National Committee, "Women want a cause...