Word: poemes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Orgel's three poems are echoes of other poets, other places and times, and other-worldly concerns, all turning on well-formed words. The poet's experiments in mood, meter, and word are seemingly unrelated, however, both to each other and to the reader, so that each aspect, while often interesting in itself, never becomes related to a complete poem. Typical of this difficulty is the use of an off-beat second line in what should seemingly be a regular ballad form. The variation is intriguing, but it does not help the overall effect...
Abel Erelong is a not very clever pseudonym for a not very clever poem about Celia and Sweeney, who should be left to Mr. Eliot. "Robert Johnston publishes an in memoriam for the passing of the 3rd Avenue El," according to the notes...
...which the left in 1907 carring a Phi Betta Kappa Key, a summa citation, and an A.B., Chafee's chief interests were writing and Latin translation. In fact, he considers his two greatest achievements to be drafting the Federal Inter-pleader Act of 1934 and translating the anonymous Latin Poem Pervigilium Veneris while at Brown. After a few years of working for his father's manufacturing firm, reading Blackstone, and being bored, Chafee decided to go to Harvard Law School. He had always wanted to write and his work on the Brunonian, Brown's literary magazine, had given...
...knack for arousing the interest of the most unlikely pupils. One day he gave a farm boy who had always hated poetry a piece of paper and said, "Now, imagine you are seated at the plow. What do you see?" The result, says Richer, "was a truly beautiful poem. Every one of those kids was learning to think for himself. I thought that that was my job." Even Bein' God. Had he been willing to stick closer to grammar and spelling, all might have gone well for Richer. But he detested the regulation texts ("All workbook stuff-read...
...Such an approach cuts the poem off from the air, and the reader feels trapped between it and the critic," he said. "Among young and inexperienced readers it may make the poem a problem before it is an experience, and keep it from ever becoming more than a problem...