Word: poems
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Tears were in the eyes of this sentimental old codger (74) as I read the poem about Belmont [May 31]. It was absolutely wonderful...
Schools Are Out. Most of the poems in the anthology share these qualities, if little else. The variety of styles and voices reflects Poet-Editor Paul Carroll's belief that designating schools of poetry is a rather arbitrary and listless business. "What I've tried to show," says Carroll, "is that there are no schools; there is only one poet at one time reading his poem." He has included many good examples of lyric and pastoral verse, in addition to the intensely personal expressions of Weltschmerz and separation that are still much favored by young poets. But unlike...
Design Poetry. In Skinny Poem, Lou Lipsitz reflects the anxiety and desperate compassion of many of today's youth...
...poem expresses sorrowful reactions to John Kennedy's assassination ("We fell in love with a delicate breath. On the eve that great men called for death.") to the war in Vietnam (where "napalm is in the frying pan") and to the experiencing of personal loss...
...should find his senses fully exhausted. There is the script of a "structural play" that diagrams the movements of the performers, who are instructed to costume themselves in "white bodystockings or leotards, with tight-fitting hoods covering the ears and featureless silver masks." There is a do-it-yourself poem in which the author provides the ingredients (adjectives, adverbs, conjunctions, gerunds, capitalized words, etc.) and leaves the composition to the reader. There is a recording of percussion instruments with the sensible instructions that it be played so low "you almost don't hear...