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...rock (or "Rock-Bach" as the West Coast enthusiasts call it). From the controlled venom of the Beatles in a song like Eleanor Rigby ("Wearing the face that she keeps in a jar by the door") to the Eliotesque elegance of Simon & Garfunkel's Dangling Conversation ("Like a poem poorly written/We are verses out of rhythm/ Couplets out of rhyme . . ."), the subject matter goes far beyond the moon-June lyrics of the past...
...were a poet," said Weidman in response to Simon's conception of the good critic, "he wouldn't be a critic--he'd write a poem...
...something of what must be Yevtushenko's great quality in his native tongue comes through in at least one poem in the Marshall translation, his uncompleted "epic" composition, Brat-sky GES (Bratsk State Hydroelectric Power Station). There is special pleasure in these episodes where the original metrical scheme does not call for rhymes above and beyond the call of the English language, and where...
This is a dream-and a poem-that all can not only understand but share...
...nation because a publisher can print that record and sell it in an open bookstore, sell it legally." Mailer went on to say that there should be no censorship. Allen Ginsberg also testified to the novel's poetic value and read the Supreme Judicial Court justices a poem he had composed in its praise...