Word: poems
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Earlier, similarly grim testimony had come from Actress Kitty Arseni, accused by the Athens regime of having been an intermediary for the recording of a "freedom poem" by Composer Mikis Theodorakis. In Athens, a government spokesman announced angrily that Greece would boycott further commission hearings this week if the sessions were not kept secret. Marketakis and Meletis, meanwhile, were granted permanent residence in Norway...
Some poetry purists criticized Dickey for using a journalistic device to clarify the poem's meaning. As precedent, Dickey cites the notations in Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. Says Dickey: "I had to make a choice, and I chose to give the reader a better sense of continuity. I don't see why there always has to be a barrier between art and journalism. Journalism can be a great vehicle for a true poetic vision...
...north Georgia hills his "spiritual ground. My people are all hillbillies. I'm only second-generation city," he drawls. During World War II, he was a combat flier on some 100 missions in Black Widow night fighters over the Pacific. He later wrote about this experience in his poem, The Firebombing...
...Your book reviewer seems puzzled both as to where T. S. Eliot found the original title of The Waste Land [Nov. 22] and what that title He Do the Police in Different Voices means. I cannot speak with authority as to why Eliot chose to call his poem by that name, but there is no doubt that it comes from a book called Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens...
...what Eliot meant-perhaps he was saying that the contents of his poem were stylistically varied and with plenty of change of pace. In other words, he could "do the police in different voices...