Word: poemes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Baker joined the two for an evening's conversation during which Frost and Baker spent much of the time quoting other men's poetry to each other. As a parting gift to Wylie and Baker, Frost gave them the signed typescript of his new, unpublished, 14-page poem. Its title: How, Hard It Is To Keep From Being King When It's In You And In The Situation...
...poetry which appears in this issue of the Advocate makes absolutely no contribution towards the achieving of anything, accept perhaps further disorder. John Ciardi contributes some fairly effective images in the first verses of his "Midnight on a Side Street." The only possible excuse for the best of the poem is that Ciardi desired to finish it. A double entry by Frank O'Hara verges on the musing, but quite definitely falls short. George Montgomery passe understanding. A poem called "(poem)" concerns a letter from a girl for the first six lines. It winds up: "In the morning, the snow...
...poem must resist the intelligence Almost successfully...
...alert or sympathetic reader can see, at times, what he is driving at. He is always puzzling over the same insoluble, kaleidoscopic riddle: "reality" v. "imagination." In the book's last poem, he asks...
...against the U.S. unless the U.S. backed down on China by early October. The proposal of the supreme command was blunt and final; Hirohito's civilian ministers accepted it. Apparently only Hirohito himself felt called upon to make any further observations. He pulled out a poem that had been written by his grandfather, the Emperor Meiji, and read it aloud...