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...Griffin took Oxsoralen, a drug sometimes administered to victims of vitiligo, a disease that produces milk-white patches on the skin. The drug makes the skin extraordinarily sensitive to ultraviolet rays; under sunlamp or sunlight exposure, the skin turns a deep brown. * From Hughes's poem "Dream Variations...
...Igor was not all candy. Some called him "the young Rimbaud," and he was taken up by all the "in" people. He married Nijinsky's daughter Kira (they were divorced during the war, and he is now married to an Italian princess). He wrote a cantata on a poem by Jean Cocteau, Hymnes, for orchestra, and a host of other breathlessly energetic works...
Unlike long novels, long poems are firmly out of fashion, and in some ways the fact is regrettable. There is an exhilaration, a knowledge of manliness gained by the reader who establishes his base camps on, say, Milton's Paradise Lost, climbs from couloir to crag, and at last reaches the summit. Now Poet Kenneth Koch, an instructor in humanities at Columbia College, has defied the trend by writing a 115-page comic poem, a kind of lesser Catskill among epics, which offers a not very strenuous practice climb with hot-dog stands every hundred yards...
Although Koch worked on the poem eight hours a day for four months (in Italy, "on my wife's Fulbright"), he is really just having fun. And he is always perfectly willing to let a chance rhyme divert his attention. While "snow From the high Himalayas comes unstuck," he writes. "Let's pause a moment, like a dairy truck." The next several stanzas, goofily irrelevant, are about a milkman...
...bohemian-utopian-socialist circle in Germany, was first Gustav Regler's mistress, then his wife, and always his real conscience. As a young girl on the family farm, she knew left-wingers as loquacious loungers who would cut down a walnut tree under which Rilke had written a poem rather than walk farther for firewood-and knew at the same time that nothing good would come of that lot. Through her beauty and her faith in the things unseen, Regler eventually came to see his politics as stale and inhuman...