Word: poem
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...think the cosmic significance of the Scituate Sea Monster episode has not been emphasized enough, and one dreary night in the Widener stacks I penned this little poem about the Monster, which might be of interest...
...already undergone yet another radicalization while awaiting trial. On a trip to Hanoi to bring back three U.S. prisoners, he had been caught in an air raid and found himself hurtling into a shelter with a Vietnamese baby in his arms. The experience became both a scar and a poem: "In my arms, Father, in a moment's grace The Messiah of all my tears I bore, reborn, a Hiroshima child from hell...
...that the world could blow up the next second. And because we know this, we younger kids will try harder, because if we don't, we just won't have any more world." Issue No. 2, now at the printer's, contains a poem by Mary Mattos, 12, and Maryann Micchelli, 11, who un-cynically calculate the price of schooling and the value of happiness...
...went on to describe the dictator in images redolent of death, decay and sickness. Stalin's "fingers are fat as grubs," his "cockroach whiskers leer," his laws are like horseshoes to fling "at the head, the eye or the groin." One version of the poem ended with Stalin savoring every execution like a raspberry...
...Some poem. Some razzberry. In those days-and for a decade to come-people disappeared forever behind the walls of Moscow's Lubianka Prison for much less. Inevitably, Stalin heard about Mandelstam's poem. Yet it was not until 1934 that he had the poet arrested. Even then, it was difficult to do away with a man as acclaimed as Mandelstam. In addition, influential friends put in the good word for him. The result was that Mandelstam was released and exiled with his wife to live as best he could in the provinces. For three years...