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...Roshū's Pass Through Mount Utsu, with its flattened, stylized mountain, green hills and brilliant red ivy tendrils hung against a spaceless ground of gold leaf, comes from a 10th century travel diary, the Tale of Ise. The voyaging hero has just given a mendicant priest a poem to take to a "lady in the capital...
...WALK), threats (TRESPASSERS WILL BE PROSECUTED), and newsstand alarms (PLANE CRASH AT TEL AVIV). Finally, Le Clézio's Everyman goes numb-nature's last defense. Spoken words become mere sounds, a meaningless buzz in the ears. The most urgent printed words-a poem by Baudelaire, a proclamation of war-have no more profound effect than the advice he reads (without really reading) on a book of matches: PLEASE CLOSE COVER BEFORE STRIKING...
...which involve legendary yellow beasts as well as the great white bird, and a bloody, obscene war between a species of monkeys and "rat-dogs." Doctors X and Y try to make him remember his wife, his family, his name and occupation-what they call reality. A fantastic prose-poem myth struggles against, and alternates with, the dry formulas of a psychiatric case history...
...wide range of artistic interests. His most recent concern has been the relationship between poetry, space, and movement. He recently inscribed a poem on four cardboard disks, so that by moving each disk he could give the poem a different meaning...
...Kerouac's death brought forth the last Beat poem...