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Dates: during 1960-1969
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A powerful if oversimplified introduction to the political and moral morass of Vietnam, In the Year of the Pig is ultimately confounded by its own sense of outrage. Such a partisan representation of history is better known by the much-abused term propaganda, and its message gets across to those...
In fact, that is precisely Eiseley's argument in this curious book: If science ignores the ancient intuitions of poets and primitives, it is likely to become an arrogant distortion of its own truth. Practicing the sensibility he preaches, Eiseley begins each chapter under the guise of an old...
The present moment appears to be one in which language has been surrendered as a possibility; we are silent at films, in music, among ourselves. We are living in silence. So it's no longer surprising that poetry, like our voices, has turned inward, listening to its own hermetic cadences...
Bly has lived in both these worlds, and insists that one is stifling, the other salvation. Returning to Harvard after World War II, he and classmates John Ashbery and Donald Hall converged on a world-which seemed to them intolerably diminished; they revived The Advocate, published their own poems, and...
But their affinities ended with this recognition, because Lowell has been on the cover of Time. and Bly has become the most radical, angry, and influential poet of his generation (which is not Lowell's). Ten years ago. the best poets in America were still insisting on their own exclusivity...