Word: poem
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...because "Growing older changes one's life. Suppose I had a coronary? Here [his Lower East Side apartment in Manhattan] I could lie helpless for days. In Oxford I shall be part of a community." Appropriately, much of Epistle to a Godson is devoted to growing old. One poem is called "Old People's Home." Two are written to doctors, dead or retiring, both part of the vanishing breed who know their patients personally and realize that medicine is an art, not a science...
...winners were: First prize of $25, Carolyn Jabs for her poem "Sonnet in Terza Rima." Carolyn is a 1972 graduate of Wittenberg College in Springfield, Ohio. She was a student in the Harvard Summer School Publishing Procedures course. Since Monday, August 14th, she has been working for Harper Row in New York. Second prize and $15 went to Barbara Manschreck for her poem "On the Evolution of Phenomena or What Crazy Maggie Shouted to the Pigeons." Barbara has done graduate work in English and is currently studying theology at the Boston Theological Institute. Third prize and $10 went to Laura...
...those who are not guided by their families or their religion, Sarrel's system ?and the whole body of "situation ethics"?fails to offer much support for making a decision. Years ago William Butler Yeats wrote a poem about the problem...
...toss come out? Yeats, unsurprisingly, gave himself a clear go-ahead, ending his poem...
...enthusiastic and perceptive introduction to the book, Stanley Kunitz properly recommends that the poems be read through all in a single sitting. The growth of Casey's insights, one upon the other, the recurring juxtaposition of human comedy and absurdist tragedy, and the escalating force of Casey's convincing verse can best be appreciated when he work is taken in as a whole. Amidst what would seem to be his verbatim transcription of his portion of the war, the poet's moments of reflection are neither disruptive nor pompous, but as frugal, honest and ironic as his descriptive poetry. Somewhat...