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...California-born U.S. citizen. Her husband was the son of an Argentine who took part in the gold rush-a tie that later pulled Che's grandparents back to Argentina. *The legendary Gaucho hero of a famed Argentine epic poem-roughly equivalent to Daniel Boone. -Arriving in Havana last week with his violently anti-U.S. wife Vilma, herself a veteran of fighting in the Sierra Maestra...
...lies in his ability to sustain a thought in accurate and effective language through a number of well chosen images and pleasing conceits. His language is quite subtle, leaving itself susceptible to various interpretations, permitting the inclusion of various ideas. This flexibility can most obviously be demonstrated in a poem called He Wins! This piece is on a common theme; it begins on a deceptively insipid note...
...earnestly he wins Success' own Sweet cadillac.... moves on to describe the poem's unnamed character returning home, and begins to discuss his garden and his contentment with his mode of living. As one reads along, however, one realizes that not only is the poet describing in almost bitter terms the character's satisfaction with his garden, but is also parodying Marvell's The Garden, a rather brilliant piece of allegorical poetry in which Marvell makes his garden the image for intense Platonic contemplation. As one thinks of The Garden, the extent of Sandy's bitterness, the effect...
...mind, the last six poems in the issue are written with ability approaching that demonstrated in He Wins! The first two, however, are of a different type and are on the whole less effective. In these, Sandy pushes together series of discordant images--intending to create a particular picture which for one reason or another does not emerge. In a poem called Fledgling, Sandy uses this technique...
Hiroshima, Mon Amour (French). What could have been a conventional Brief Encounter sort of romance is turned into an intensely moving, if occasionally slow, cinematic poem, largely thanks to its Hiroshima setting, where yesterday's nightmare mingles with the irresistible charms of newly growing life...