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...tragic vision that Cervantes understood and that left Hemingway mesmerized. "It is Spanish," said Actress Aurora Bautista of Lorca's greatest play, Yerma. "We are unused to things Spanish." And unused, too, to the terrible directness of vision that illuminated Lorca's best writing, as in his poem Lament for Ignacio Sanchez Mejias, in which he speaks of the death of a matador who died in a goring...
...best thing in the magaine is Andreas Teuber's "a Poem," which reduces to rubble the pretensions of what someone once called the "crotch school" of Cambridge, writing. Chana Faerstein's translation of Itzik Manger's poem "Jephthah's Daughter" has moments of power. But the magazine still does not publish enough undergraduate writing...
Rapturous Piety. Unabashedly, Ransom describes a lyric poem as "an act of rapturous piety; a homage to human nature despite its hateful and treacherous tendencies." Dry, knit-browed New Critics, trying to justify their unexpected fondness for such a man, are often as unsuccessful as connoisseurs trying to convey the exact flavor of a vintage wine. One thing that especially endears the poet to his colleagues, however, is his fashionable fondness for antinomies -his perception that life is lived in impossible tension between unresolvable opposites. Ransom heroines die of "six spells of fever and six of burning." They have only...
...streets swarmed with mobs of children, eagerly accepting Life Savers from U.S. advisers and schoolbooks distributed by the province chief. With the Khanh takeover, things brightened further; the Viet Cong monument has been repainted as a government monument, and walls have been plastered with propaganda slogans, including a poem: "I am a girl of the countryside. If you follow the Viet Cong, I will never love...
...fully believable as the charming 16 year old girl, though occasionally a more mature voice and graceful style would have suited her role. As for the young lad (Dean Stolber), he is "grown up and stable and willing to conform"; but he is in love and life is a poem...