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...Angeles is to Mudd what Paterson, N.J. was to William Carlos Williams his sole source of inspiration, the backdrop against which time passes and the measure of change. Mudd even defines his own art by describing his hometown--he writes that poetry is a rambling jazz, spread out as lights are over the freeways...
...sister, who conclude that hell is life on earth, Mudd says it contains all the promise of heaven. In "Searching for the Queen of Angels," the poet actually finds the queen of angels--of says he does. His queen is the same as that of Williams, who writes in Paterson. "Say it, no ideas but in thing." Mudd's entire reason for living is the city's vigor the singular relish humanity takes in its own creations, Eventually, paradise can come on earth. Odes have been written to cities before, but never one so convincing in its optimism...
...represents only an extreme example of what the area is capable of producing. This article does great injustice to the majority of black and Hispanic youngsters who are simply good kids, doing their best to succeed in a world in which the cards are stacked against them. Richard Bobrick Paterson...
...Partners' most successful targets was Paterson, N.J. (pop. 138,000), a blighted manufacturing city with 50 abandoned factories and mills. Most of the decaying structures were candidates for the bulldozer. In 1980, Partners got behind Mayor Lawrence Kramer's plans to renovate those historic buildings. To date, four of them have been handsomely restored for educational, commercial and tourist use, and additional renovative work is in the offing for four more. "To have top professionals come in and say 'Yes, this is the way to go' helped light some fuses around here," says Kramer...
Great American Novel, or that Joe of Paterson...