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...Bailey. The defendants: Gay News (circulation: 20,000), a fortnightly newspaper for homosexuals, and Denis Lemon, 32, editor of the periodical, who came to court with a button saying GAY NEWS FIGHTS ON in the lapel of his conservative three-piece gray suit. The offense: publishing a poem by James Kirkup, in which a Roman centurion describes his sexual relations with the body of the crucified Christ. Prosecutor John J. Smyth called the verses "so vile that it would be hard for even the most perverted imagination to conjure up anything worse...
This sense of linguistic homelessness is evident throughout his work, but most poignant in the poem "An Evening of Russian Poetry" ("Beyond the seas where I have lost a scepter,/ I hear the neighing of my dappled nouns...
...such a society, Doctorow suggests, it is not surprising that the images in Baraheni's essays on Iranian culture and images of brutality and atrocity, or that the images in his poetry are images of physical contact between bodies. In what is perhaps the most moving poem in this volume, two dead poets meet in the Julfa, a river that runs between the Soviet Union and Iran in which dissidents of both countries are rumored to have been drowned...
Speaking in the soft nasal twang of his native Kentucky, Warren admitted that he wrote the poem as a response to a colleague's discussion of the frequent appearance of hawk-images in his poetry...
...That's proof that criticism has some bearing on what hopes to be a poem," he added...