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Schools Are Out. Most of the poems in the anthology share these qualities, if little else. The variety of styles and voices reflects Poet-Editor Paul Carroll's belief that designating schools of poetry is a rather arbitrary and listless business. "What I've tried to show," says Carroll, "is that there are no schools; there is only one poet at one time reading his poem." He has included many good examples of lyric and pastoral verse, in addition to the intensely personal expressions of Weltschmerz and separation that are still much favored by young poets. But unlike...
Design Poetry. In Skinny Poem, Lou Lipsitz reflects the anxiety and desperate compassion of many of today's youth...
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Enderby, 45, a flabby, balding and toothless bachelor, is the poet as anti-stereotype. The wind that blows on his Aeolian harp comes out mostly as stomach gas. Belching and backfiring, he sits on his toilet seat day after monotonous day composing a narrative poem about the Minotaur. Yet, as manuscript slowly fills the bathtub, Enderby is a happy and fulfilled man. Living off dividends and tiny royalties, he really needs "nothing except more talent...
...life's great survivors. In the wildly freewheeling last half of the novel, Enderby returns to claim his old poet's self. On the lam from all his would-be reformers-including the police-he ends up in the layatories of Morocco, blissfully scribbling a long poem based on Hamlet. Enderby may not have the gift for living, but, concludes Burgess, "poets, even minor ones, donate the right words" that enable others to live. On this claim-that they are saviors who cannot save themselves-Burgess rests his case for all poets...