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...because "Growing older changes one's life. Suppose I had a coronary? Here [his Lower East Side apartment in Manhattan] I could lie helpless for days. In Oxford I shall be part of a community." Appropriately, much of Epistle to a Godson is devoted to growing old. One poem is called "Old People's Home." Two are written to doctors, dead or retiring, both part of the vanishing breed who know their patients personally and realize that medicine is an art, not a science...
...well as a gift for sardonic aphorism unmatched in poetry are all lightly trained on one of our much-vaunted achievements when the poet describes the moon landing as a "huge phallic triumph . . . made possible only/ because we like huddling in gangs and knowing/ the exact time." The poem "Circe" has hard words for the lady's most notably unwitting seductees, the dreamy denizens of the counterculture...
...winners were: First prize of $25, Carolyn Jabs for her poem "Sonnet in Terza Rima." Carolyn is a 1972 graduate of Wittenberg College in Springfield, Ohio. She was a student in the Harvard Summer School Publishing Procedures course. Since Monday, August 14th, she has been working for Harper Row in New York. Second prize and $15 went to Barbara Manschreck for her poem "On the Evolution of Phenomena or What Crazy Maggie Shouted to the Pigeons." Barbara has done graduate work in English and is currently studying theology at the Boston Theological Institute. Third prize and $10 went to Laura...
...those who are not guided by their families or their religion, Sarrel's system ?and the whole body of "situation ethics"?fails to offer much support for making a decision. Years ago William Butler Yeats wrote a poem about the problem...
...toss come out? Yeats, unsurprisingly, gave himself a clear go-ahead, ending his poem...