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Luckily, almost all of the dancers find their confidence and their balance by the second half of the program and the choreography improves immeasurably. Lessinger's solo to the poem "The Creation" is a hymn to the human body. It is an intense delight to watch his perfect control over the power in his legs and arms as they carve out the earth...
...also intensely annoying that each line of the poem is read after he has danced it, as if a lecturer were explaining Lessinger's movements. Reading the lines before they are danced would better give the audience a feeling of sharing in the emotions that inspired the movements...
...greatest Communist folk hero to emerge from the Viet Nam war is a skinny teen-ager named Nguyen Van Be, who left his home in the Mekong Delta to join the Viet Cong. Van Be's death is recorded in poem, song and story throughout North Viet Nam and among the Viet Cong. Prompted by Hanoi's radio and newspapers, North Vietnamese schoolchildren compare his deeds to "a thousand thunderbolts." His picture, taken when he was a guerrilla, has become a pinup among the Viet Cong, who name squads after him and hold periods of silent meditation...
...Island's insightful and eminently readable poetry concentrates on easily recognizable, sometimes commonplace, experiences and feelings. In "The Crest of the Rut," for example, Stuart Davis writes about Cambridge, an ambitious subject for a short poem. Davis' observations are to be taken seriously; but he presents them in the almost comic perspective of someone resigned to the frustration that most students have, at some time, associated with the city: Gashed egos siren here...
...spite of the cloying ryhme at the end of each stanza, the poem still delights after several readings...