Word: lyric
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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which gently and coldly present a lynching in the deep South. And some take Bonesian lyric postures toward experience that is clearly Henry's. The dream songs succeed in conveying all the angst and confusion of a nightmare--the hellish switchings of identy, the loss or mutilation of the physical self--in a form that is scrupulously lyric, based on the canzone, containing (usually) eighteen lines, and variously rhymed...
...gentilities, and wherever the itinerant Shakespeareans try to move their goods (wallah is Hindi for peddler), they meet stiff sales resistance. Indians, like most of the rest of the world, have forsaken the theater for the film, and the cheapest movie actress means more to them than the most lyric Lear. The once-prominent troupe, reduced by death and penury to mother, father and ingenue daughter, stops play acting to settle for one-night stands of "Gems from Shakespeare." The daughter, by now caught in a hopeless triangle between an Indian boy and his film-star mistress, sails...
...Supreme songs the girls tried almost worked. It was "Somewhere," and Diana's throaty lyric quieted the crowd to a whisper, but then she succumbed to a long, Shangri-la-like spoken dialogue concerning trees, birds, and other embarrassing items. The audience succumbed to a titter...
...Skin) is a Barbadian. In the last generation, a torrent of literary talent has come surging out of the Caribbean like a Gulf Stream of the spirit. In the new generation, the stream has been strengthened by a number of remarkable young writers-among them an important lyric poet (Derek Walcott), an insightful critic (L. E. Brathwaite) and dozens of gifted storytellers (V. S. Reid, Samuel Selvon, Clement Richer, Lydia Cabrera, Albert Helman). Many of them are Negro or part-Negro, and they write in several languages (Dutch, English, French, Spanish). Their works, sampled in this arresting anthology...
Preaching & Picketing. Berrigan, who was born in Two Harbors, Minn., and raised in Syracuse, has a considerable reputation as a skillful lyric poet. He taught English and Latin at Brooklyn Prep and theology at the Jesuits' Le Moyne College in Syracuse, where one of his students in 1963 was David Miller, the arrested draft-card burner. Since 1964 he has been an associate editor of Jesuit Missions magazine, a pleasant job that gives him plenty of time to travel and write...