Word: poems
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Judge Kapp would have none of it. "I believe you were an active participant to burn Newark," he told the unrepentant author, and then cited a poem published in last December's Evergreen Review in which Jones exhorted Negroes to "smash the window at night (these are magic actions) .. . Just take what you want. Take their lives if need be, but get what you want." "You are sick," lectured the judge. "Not as sick as you," shot back Jones before leaving for Trenton state prison...
...does not seem to be his forte. His unofficial effort on the death of Winston Churchill laments that "the route was difficult, and the peak remote" for "the young fox-haired firebrand of debate." That verse won the Times Literary Supplement's nomination for 1965's worst poem. Several years ago, however, Day-Lewis took a step that should prove enormously helpful. As he relates in his autobiography The Buried Day (1960), he refuses to subscribe to a press-clipping service...
...hold much truck with poetry, but you know what you've done?" Bonnie: "What's that, Buck Barrow?" Buck: "You've managed to combine the intellectual disillusionment of Eliot with the ambiguous symbolism of Baudelaire and still come up with a poem that stinks...
...method is this," he explained. "I write a poem on innumerable sheets of scrap paper, often upside down and crisscross ways unpunctuated, surrounded by drawings of lampposts and boiled eggs, in a very dirty mess; bit by bit I copy out the slowly developing poem into an exercise book; and, when it is completed, I type it out. The scrap sheets I burn." Fourteen years after Thomas' death, collectors still mourn those burned scraps. But four of his workbooks of self-history are available for study-at 26, Dylan sold them to the Lockwood Library of the State University...
...which more and more young Negroes are finding themselves these days, and the situation is reflected in several of Chandler's pictures that carry the title "Split Personality." Particularly impressive, too, is the small, subdued painting called "Many Faces of the Black Man," which calls to mind a poem of Dunbar...