Word: poems
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Andras Hamori is less fun to read, but his imagery is invariably exact, and the moods he maintains are more demanding than Miss Faerstein's. John Morgan's sinuous and complicated poem, "Mississippi," fails unless the reader retraces its rather flat lines several times. It contains a lot of detail unnecessary to its message or tone...
...flawless ("Pearly and luminous as butterflies") and its density at times approaches contrivance ("Mousing up these lion paws of mountains"), but again and again the produces quickly paced lines that are genuinely exhiliarating "The weather here is salt; I want to scrub my soul in it. Typically, her best poem, Life Goes to a Party in Chelm, is her most audecious. It skips outrageously in and out of metaphores but they are never mixed, and she finally succeeds through sheer vitality...
...arrogance of his old age, but it also accounts for the surging incredible productivity of those years-the eternal child in Goethe was an unfailing source of creativity. In the last half of his life Goethe completed five major dramas, four long novels, a 12,111-line narrative poem, a six-volume treatise on color, a ten-volume autobiography, a three-volume edition of his Conversations with Eckermann, and several thousand short er poems...
...Under these white locks," he bellowed when he was 73, "there is an Aetna!" And Aetna erupted to the end. At 82, three months before his death, Goethe summoned his last forces and completed the drama that, after La Commedia of Dante Alighieri, must be accounted the greatest single poem of the Western world: Faust...
Susan J. Smith, a senior at Mills College in San Francisco, has been named first place winner in the Summer School's Fourth Annual Poetry Contest. The winning poem, The Miracle of Creation, is printed below...