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...know about you, but I cannot recall having ever chanted much poetry to myself while walking down the street or waiting for the MBTA. Not because I do not like poetry but because I cannot remember the words to very many poems. The ones I do know by heart are mainly the ones that I wish I did not remember (e. g., "I think that I shall never see/A poem as lovely as a tree...
...poem? the older man asked. An attempt at a poem, I answered. Then I added: "Ho Chi Minh was a poet, was he not?" "Yes," said the man. "Yes, Ho Chi Minh was a poet...
Poet Phyllis McGinley, though she feels that "women are certainly as bright, if not brighter than men," and are biologically tougher into the bargain, has her doubts about the radical fringe of the movement. In a poem from her collection, Times Three, she sums up her feelings this...
...criticism, though journalists can still be tried and jailed for publishing "antinational propaganda." It is best to keep criticism obscure, as in the case of Eighteen Texts, a book recently published in Athens. Though Greece is not specifically mentioned, it is plainly the subject. The opening contribution, a poem by Nobel Prizewinner George Seferis, recounts an old Cypriot tale in which a bunch of cats (read colonels) wipe out an invasion of snakes (read Communists), only to wind up poisoned by snake venom. A second story alludes to a remark of Premier Papadopoulos that contemporary Greece is like a patient...
...following is the first-prize poem in this summer's poetry contest. Its author, Charles O. Hartman, received a $25 first prize...