Word: poem
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...FAVORITE POEM: I love little pussy, her coat is so warm, and if I don't hurt her she'll do me no harm...
Dunnock's reading was pitched too high: her voice should have descended like inverted stairs, to that last slippery step of the last line of the poem. Dunnock spoke without grief or mocking, perversity, bitterness or real joy. Childishness may have been the only thing Dickinson and Dunnock have in common. Like a child playing in coal dust, Mildred Dunnock played with the poems of Emily Dickinson and covered herself with a soft dusting of embarrassment...
After such fare, young Edwin turns to cartoons with enthusiasm. He starts by saying things like "Thanks, Mister," with appropriate cartoon intonation. Then comes a little poem written on the death of a friend that ends with "That's all, folks!" Mullhouse's novel, which also ends with the immortal cartoon closing line from Looney Tunes, seals its author's literary future. Jeffrey decides that his own mission in life is to immortalize his friend in a biography. His next thought is that it is damned inconvenient for a biographer to have a living subject messing things...
...Poem attributed to a Communist soldier killed in Viet...
...well as a gift for sardonic aphorism unmatched in poetry are all lightly trained on one of our much-vaunted achievements when the poet describes the moon landing as a "huge phallic triumph . . . made possible only/ because we like huddling in gangs and knowing/ the exact time." The poem "Circe" has hard words for the lady's most notably unwitting seductees, the dreamy denizens of the counterculture...