Word: poems
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Parades, songs, slogans, brass bands and banners are constantly used to incite the people; plays, books, meetings, orations ceaselessly repeat the message that old China is now a country grown young. A poem of the Tang dynasty (A.D. 618-906) reads...
...beyond the scope of the unabridged dictionary (favrile) but the almost never settles back upon the easy couch of cliche. His most evident fault lies elsewhere--in the directions of slickness and hyperfacility. Too often, the glitter of his words made me stop and lose sight of the whole poem while I luxuriated in a single phrase or image like "scouring chimneys' ledges' edges,/ scuffling sludge of leafmulch thickly." (from Winter Emergent...
...terribly amusing. In Come to Izmir he adopts a jaunty sort of irony that mocks the language of travel guides. He has a real gift for conveying the appropriate tone of voice, the proper mood: En Route to Persepolis 330 B.C. displays this talent to good advantage. The poem is in three parts, and Freeman switches roles from section to section; at first he is sage and meditative, then boisterous and lusty...
...good poetry, most of it-like the prose-in conventional forms. New poets like X. J. Kennedy, Daniel J. Langton, James Wright, established poets like Donald Davie, Howard Nemerov, Louis Simpson are well represented by well-wrought verse. One newsworthy item (in Evergreen Review): a strong anti-oppression poem by jailed Soviet Poet Yesenin-Volpin, natural son of the Yesenin who was one of Isadora Duncan's lovers...
...Thurber sketched and wrote with a black crayon on huge sheets of yellow paper. When the fog became too thick, he stopped sketching and learned, helped by his second wife, Helen, to write by dictation. He kept his courage and improved his prose; The Thirteen Clocks, his delightful tone poem and fairy story, was written when he could...