Word: poems
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...discipline that can be practiced by someone who has fled the old priesthood and has yet to found his own. The question that arises from many of Cohen's poems is: Where can a radically enlightened individual invest his passion and get a steady and satisfying return? Revolutionary politics has its possibilities but, as Cohen notes in his poem Kerensky, the vision of revolution is all too brief. Cohen's own experiences in this area include a disappointing 1961 adventure in Cuba as a would-be volunteer for Castro just before the Bay of Pigs invasion...
...star bit has never exerted much appeal. "I'd rather write than act," he insists. "Always have." One night years ago, between drinks he blurted a poem to a girl...
...character of his protagonist who, like another gifted innocent, Billy Budd, speaks with the tongue of men and angels. In fact the doomed man's only legacy is verses, hidden in a government ledger and negligently destroyed by a bored governor who could make nothing of them. One poem hopes that out of the cesspool, time will "bring larks and heroes...
...following are the first place poem of Dwain Cromwell, and the fourth place poem of Michael Fiveash...
...looseleaf notebook. Knocking on McCarthy's door during this year's presidential campaign, Paul Gorman, one of his speechwriters, found that the candidate was too busy to talk. With a book entitled Mammals of North America in front of him, the Senator was writing a poem called Wolverines. "I was afraid," confesses Gorman, "that the next day he'd get up and say 'Ladies and gentlemen . . . wolverines...