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...infusion of Pound's politics into the Cantos, "lowers its standards as a literary work," and this betrays the real problem with that particular award and all other literary prizes. They are symbols of the desire to dictate culture to the masses. It is meaningless to say one poem is better than another in some type of hierarchical order. Some poems will simply be read more than others and critics should spend their time writing about the individual poems and poets they would like to see being read more, and not waste their time over prizes. The question then...
...write your first poem in your mother tongue, and to read it to a mother who understands no other language; to take that poem to school and read it to the kids and have it published in the school paper and hear your words being read by others in your own language; to recite it to the peasants in their huts, the workers in the factory, to the businessmen in the bazaars, and see they don't need translators to understand the meaning of your simple syllables! What richness! What riches...
Between the beginning and the end of this student-choreographed piece, Claire Mallardi would say, "falls the shadow" of imperfection that Eliot spoke of in his poem, The Hollow Men." Mallardi, who is director of the University's dance program, has spent the last two years as artistic advisor of the Harvard-Radcliffe Dance Company trying to help her students realize their intentions in movement. "I want to erase the discrepancy between what the students think they are showing and what the audience actually sees," Mallardi said in a recent interview. All but one of the six works performed...
Snyder read some of his famous Japanese-influenced works, including the haunting poem "This Tokyo" and the humorous "Burning Trash," to a standing-room-only crowd...
Some samples from this month's preview edition include a nice tribute to the late Phil Ochs by Jerry Rubin, A Kirkpatrick Sale piece reminding readers that Howard Hughes made most of his money in the public till, and a poem by Allen Ginsberg. So much for big names: the rest of the articles are,--by and large,--good, solid stories written by a smattering of working reporters from around the country and the world...