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...name of the film, of course, is changed: Enderby has adapted Gerard Manley Hopkins's The Wreck of the Deutschland for the screen, to be produced and directed by Melvin Schaumwein. Chisel Productions. His reasons for the crude adaptation is that the film might lead people to read the poem, which is recognizably better art. But instead, the film, warped by the director to include a nun's gang bang, provokes widespread rage when some youths charged with raping a nun claim the film made them do it. Similar complaints were leveled against A Clockwork Orange, and here too, Enderby...
This attempt to write a poem, rather than weave a brilliant picture, sets the structure of the book. He notes...
...those who don't write as they talk, including, of course, Connolly). His lifetime hobby was drawing up lists of those who made literature what it is today, culminating in that half book, half catalogue, The Modern Movement. Connolly loved the sweeping judgment: "The greatest single poem of the first half of the twentieth century . . ." turns out to be the Four Quartets. "If there is one key book of the twentieth century . . ."-a clause which, with Connolly, can lead only to Proust. But despite all those reviews in the Observer and then the Sunday Times of London...
FELLINI'S BENEFICENT world has no visible social underpinnings. In one scene, some bricklayers building a house pause as one of the workers steps forward to recite a short "poem." "My grandfather laid bricks all his life," he says. "My father did the same. I have laid bricks all my life. But where is my house?" The question doesn't need to be answered; the worker is one of Fellini's eccentrics, tolerated in a good-natured way but not respected. Aurelio's wife locks him inside the house on the day II Duce comes to speak...
...late, Ammons has indulged in several very long poems. They are per- haps verse rather than poetry (verse being what good poets write when they are waiting for a poem to strike). But at least it is verse of a high caliber...