Word: poem
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Shapiro put some of his feelings into a recent poem called "The Funeral of Jan Palach." Though Palach was a Czech who set fire to himself after the Russian invasion of 1968, Shapiro says that his poem is "really about the funeral of America. More than anything I can say it demonstrates my real feelings." Excerpt: "Halfway in mud and slush the microphones picked up/ It was raining on the houses./ It was snowing on the police cars./ . . . And my own mother was brave enough she looked/ And it was all right I was dead." Shapiro adds: "There...
...thing," she muses. "At Wheaton, I really believed that you could change things and make them better. Now I'm just sort of putting my head together." She gives the impression of a person who is not retreating but resting. Like the character in Robert Frost's poem, "The Pasture," Elizabeth Stevens has apparently stopped to watch a stirred-up spring and wait for the water to clear again...
...year has not erased all of the hatred that flared into gunfire on the campus of Ohio's Kent State University, or assuaged the anguish of the victims' families. On the anniversary of the tragedy, Pittsburgh's Arthur Krause cited a poem as best conveying the "essence and spirit" of his daughter Allison, one of the four students slain by Ohio National Guardsmen. Excerpts from the poem, written by Krause's friend, Manhattan Insurance Broker Peter Davies...
After the lecture, Ali recited one of his poems, "Better Far," which he introduced as a "black militant freedom poem." The verse was about a young black from Mississippi who at age ten had seen a black man lynched by the Klan, and had later had "bad experiences with the worst of the whites." He had gone north to Brooklyn where he joined the Panthers, and at the time of the poem was involved with 49 other Panthers in a rooftop shoot-out against the police. After all the other Panthers had been either shot or had surrendered, he remained...
...ever pregnant behind her ratty baby carriage. Esther tried writing a novel about herself and that didn't work. And then she tried different ways of killing herself and one way worked better than the other so they put her away. As Sylvia Plath says in her poem "Daddy," "They pulled me out of the sack, And they stuck me together with glue." The Bell Jar is a description of their jar of glue and the way their fusty inept hands fumbled Esther's embarrassed and bruised parts. Her hilarity is as black as it is defiant; she refuses...