Word: poeme
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...only so much can be derived from a study of origins. There is another literary work entitled Roots, a newly published poem by the late John Berry...
...poem, "Are You Running With Me, Jesus?", clearly combined both themes, although McCarthy claimed the work was not meant to carry political implications...
...Another poem commented on the unpopularity of America's involvement in Southeast Asia by invoking the image of Kilroy, a fictitious mascot of American forces whose name appeared as scrawled graffitti throughout Europe and Korea but who became conspicuous by his absence from Vietnam. "Kilroy is absent without leave from Vietnam," McCarthy read, and the impact of the poem's message moved the audience to applause...
...Henry poems included here lack some of this edgy vitality, although in the prologue to a work he never wrote, Berryman could open a prayer for inspiration in typically boisterous manner: "So screw you, Muses." Late in the book a poem begins "I didn't. And I didn't."-celebrating a suicide urge that the poet had resisted. Some 40 hours after he wrote these lines, Berryman...
When Merwin descends to rub his language against the here and now, sparks can fly, as in a poem called "Fishing...