Word: poems
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Boyle's "A Poem About the Jews" rolls in 169 long, free-verse lines from Old Testament times to the present, noting random instances of anti-Semitic atrocity. She mentions the Nazis only in anticipation, and millenium-old progroms accumulate a terribly immediate horror from the comparison. "The Germans were not alone in their fury." Finally, she narrates in stoical understand language the Mississippi murders of Goodman, Schwerner, and Chaney, and poses devastatingly the question: "Can we say/ Now we have heard enough? Can we say the history is done...
William Ferguson's "Father and Son" does not explicitly reiterate the Hawkes and Kozol theme suggested by its title. Its simple diction yields no readily paraphrasable theme at all, yet the poem has a strange power. Worth seeking out, it may urge readers toward concurrence with Eliot's precept, that superior poetry can communicate much before it is wholly "understood...
...rock (or "Rock-Bach" as the West Coast enthusiasts call it). From the controlled venom of the Beatles in a song like Eleanor Rigby ("Wearing the face that she keeps in a jar by the door") to the Eliotesque elegance of Simon & Garfunkel's Dangling Conversation ("Like a poem poorly written/We are verses out of rhythm/ Couplets out of rhyme . . ."), the subject matter goes far beyond the moon-June lyrics of the past...
...were a poet," said Weidman in response to Simon's conception of the good critic, "he wouldn't be a critic--he'd write a poem...
This is a dream-and a poem-that all can not only understand but share...