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...This poem may not be the best the Advocate has published this year, but it has several claims which cannot be denied. Brevity eliminates the need for that adjectival description on which critics exert so much useless effort. Directness elevates it above those Advocate pieces which are so enthralled with verbal and pictorial impressions that they cannot exclude but only include. Lyric ensures that no reader will be dissuaded until he has taken everything author Mike Wolfert has to offer...
Arthur Freeman has written a poem called "The Short History of Art." After an opening burst of technical terminology, the poem settles down to becoming a string of harmonics which formulate a habit of mind. On the whole, it seems to be more embellishment than formulation...
Richard Eberhart best defined his approach as a poet when he said in his poem The Groundhog...
...Prize. ¶ Otar Taktakishvili, 32, former student at the Tiflis Conservatory and twice a Stalin Prizewinner (for his First Symphony, in 1949, and Concerto for Piano and Orchestra, in 1952). ¶ Veli Mukhatov, 40, praised by Khachaturian for his oratorios. ¶ Akhmed Gadzhiev, 39, noted for a 1952 symphonic poem, Peace. Other young Russian composers, better known outside the Soviet Union: ¶ Karen Khachaturian, 36. Aram's nephew, whose eclectic, highly rhythmic Violin Sonata in G Minor has been recorded by Russian Virtuoso David Oistrakh. ¶ Andrei Volkonsky, 23, whose works hint at Hindemith; he migrated from France...
Mark Roskill's poem about Hadrian is straightforward but unconvincing. Its impact depends upon the reading of two words, "resurrect," and "facile," words which the poetic context does not define for me. As a result, the poem is, for me, an amusement...