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...strongest, most durable voice belonged to Allen Ginsberg, whose poem Howl was taken up as the Beat manifesto. The tribal saga was Jack Kerouac's On the Road, a novel that celebrated, among other things, the nation's interstate highway system...
Tennyson's 19th century vision, described in his poem Locksley Hall, could become 20th century reality if an international group of space buffs has its way. In the U.S. and Canada, in Europe and Asia, teams of scientists and designers are busily completing plans for innovative craft that will travel through space propelled solely by sunlight reflecting off their giant sails. At a meeting this fall of the International Astronautical Federation in Dresden, Germany, at least three of the ships will be picked to compete in a fantastic voyage: an unmanned sailing race to Mars...
...probably caused by arson. On Saturday, Santa Barbara was declared a federal disaster area. Fifteen years of daily notes and books half written, of statues and photos and memories, were gone. My only solace came from the final irony. In the manuscript I had saved, I had quoted the poem of the 17th century Japanese wanderer Basho, describing how destruction can sometimes bring a kind of clarity...
...What gets to me about that theme," Thomas tells his visitor, "is that it takes many directions but basically it's all one thing: falling." That reminds him of a Rilke poem, Autumn. "The leaves are falling," he says in singsong paraphrase, playing the passage again, "falling from on high as if from heaven's dying orchards. And each leaf falls with its own special gesture of denial, saying...
...woman's bottom, he has written very little during the past two years. He considers this curtailment of his vocation as a "contribution to emergency times." Says he: "When you are in a situation like Peru's today, you can't change it with a novel or a poem...