Word: poems
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...poetry pages, Derry Griscom's "What Passes Upon the Journey," not only rhymes but very nearly scans. The poem, however, grows more obscure in each verse and his fifth stanza is marred by a series of strained images. Peter Junger's four-line verse, "Billet Doux," is not obscure but its clarity is its only recommendation. Although erratic in its rhyming scheme, David Chandler's "The Paradox," shows a forceful imagination and a facile handling of his subject. The poem moves from earthy allegory to the metaphysical with a minimum of roughness...
...Rolf Gerard, new staging by Britain's Peter Brook, and a cast of the Met's brightest stars. Director Brook listened to the music carefully, decided that its sentimental tunes and melting harmonies belonged in a French romantic setting, despite the fact that Goethe's dramatic poem was laid in 16th century Germany. The result: a period piece, but in a different period...
wrote a long poem bemoaning today's loaves of "processed fluff." TIME'S Gwyneth Kahn answered: "In many ways the good old days aren't what they used to be. One can well mourn: A book of Kinsey underneath the bough, A jug of noncaloric coke, and thou Beside me, slicing loaves of processed fluff -Alas ! This is not Paradise enough...
...Biographer M. Marion Marberry, an ex-newspaperman, makes abundantly clear in a breezy, irreverent biography, Miller was less the victim of literary fashion than of simple justice. The sole significance of his first-known poem is not its idiosyncratic spelling...
...funeral pyre intended for Joaquin's eventual use. The place ran on Joaquin's Law: no whisky before noon. On neighboring slopes, he planted some 75,000 trees. In 1892, in the Holy Grotto, as Joaquin called his writing room, he penned his best known poem, Columbus ("Sail on! Sail on! And on!") and got $50 for it. Later, when the poem had become a schoolroom staple, a W.C.T.U. member quizzed Joaquin on his inspiration. "Whisky, ma'am," said Joaquin...