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Each Wednesday, 25 to 30 people present their poetry at the open mike in the basement of the Cantab Lounge. As I walk in, Douglas Bishop is standing in front of the mike teaching the audience the refrain of a poem. He has no trouble enticing everyone to speak along...
...survey of song titles from her 1992 Blue Note album, Maroons, reflects the contemporary images that inform Allen's playing: "Mad Money," "Feed the Fire," "Brooklyn Bound `A'," and "Bed-Sty." The liner notes to that album include Greg Tate's poem "Maroon To Reign (terrain)," which echoes Allen's preoccupation with the troubled world of today's Black America...
...poets drawn to rhyme and meter, Merrill was a source of inspiration and intimidation-a salutary reminder that a poem's "finish" is rarely finished. Among those for whom formal verse seemed passa, he was accorded a notably ungrudging respect: there was simply no gainsaying his mastery, his seriousness, his artistic probity...
...penchant for understatement may help explain his ability to satisfy so wide an audience. He was a master of the graceful exit, the teasing diminuendo. He had a fondness for half-concealing his cleverest effects, so that you might have to read a poem two or three times before you detect the rhyme of "dirigible" with "unmarriageable" or "rosy" with "Mafiosi." Dexterity was simply one of the givens of his work-as was his erudition, his homosexuality, his wealth, his cosmopolitan life...
Under sun and moon-in all weathers-he went on constructing, a process whose natural culmination was his vast phantasmagoria The Changing Light at Sandover, an epic poem stretching over three volumes and chronicling extended conversations with the illustrious dead, whom Merrill summoned by Ouija board. He has gone on to become one of them, leaving behind the paradoxical legacy of a man who loved both understatement and sumptuosity, nicety and grandeur. In the end, his contradictions were expansive. Collectively the poems declare, Here's a world, and it's a good...