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...relaxed idiom, and but for an occasional relapse into bluster ("The great wings sighing with a nameless hunger") uses that idiom most effectively. "The Fall of Troy," by Rachel Hadas '69, is a successful exercise in academic wit; her logic doesn't always carry, but the bulk of he poem rings true...
...present issue is bright and readable. Some time ago Mssrs. Shaw and Plotz were clever enough to offer a cash prize to draw contributors; as a result, there's not a bad poem in the issue, if we except Eric Anderson's extemporaneous blues price which I am not qualified to judge but did not enjoy reading. John Lewis' "Certitudes," which think the right word is "reassuring." His poems in the March issue, particularly "The Uses of Poetry," had more glitter, but Mr. Lewis is a consistently skilled and mature writer. This poem, an anatomy of a dying grandmother, works...
Richard Tillinghast is utterly fluent, "Not Being There" is not one of his best, but his expert use of the first person singular and infallible control over the progression of a poem enable him to be both professional and insurrectionary. And Robert Shaw offers a long, successful suite of voices from a madhouse, something like Spoon River Anthology. Shaw handles forms extermely well; his quatrains make him the most entertaining poet in the issue...
...published a book of short poems, Orpheus and the Moon Craters, in 1941, and a narrative poem. Abelard, last year. He recently completed verse translations of the Alcestis and Ion of Euripides, now begin published...
...Island announced today that John Lewis, a graduate student in English, was awarded the $25 first prize for the best poem submitted in their contest. His poem, will appear in the May issue of the new literary magazine. Judges were William Alfred. Albert J. Gelpi. at John L. Sweeney...