Word: poems
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Quoting from "Who am I?", a poem of the 1960's by Tru Vu, Bich said, "I am neither Communist or Nationalist--I am a Vietnamese...isn't that enough...
...accept Vladimir Gulevich, 20, of Paterson, N.J., who graduated from his local high school two years ago with below-average grades, went on to a Manhattan business school. Gulevich caught the notice of admissions officials by writing the required essay about himself in the form of an extended poem, then by showing interviewers a sheaf of first-rate translations of Russian verse...
Imitations & Echoes. The technique worked so well that he was elected class president and editor of the school paper, the Chatterbox, to which he contributed countless drawings and a flood of articles and light verse, not the least of which was a poem called "Child's Question": "O, is it true/ A word with Q/ The usual U/ Does lack?/ I grunt and strain, /But, no, in vain, /My weary brain/ Iraq." He also earned straight A's. His mother, leafing through an anthology of prizewinning short stories calculated that more prizewinning authors had gone to Harvard than...
...argument proceeds, convincing the ear before the meaning is fully catalogued. If it is not a great poem it is at least an interesting and superbly controlled...
Like Miss Hadas' poem Dorcas' story is uncluttered with glosses to Lowell and Eliot and the assorted deities of last year's tutorial. This is probably so because, to judge from the numerous references to anthropology, the author concentrates in Folk Mythology...