Word: poems
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Fall 1962 issue is very much a case in point: it is made up of three essays of varying length, a short short story, two poems, a one-act play that-runs to some twenty pages, and a hefty book review. All of the essays are about Jews and Judaism (although one was written by a Catholic, Michael Novak, and concerns itself with the problems he feels arise when a Catholic "encounters" a Jew), the short story has been cast in a specifically Jewish idiom (the involved mock-reminiscence practiced by Issac Bashevis Singer), and at least...
...think the following poem will interest your readers. It is a pretty old one, but it simply and effectively sums up the temperament of the belligerently aggressive Chinese: How courteous is the sweet Chinese; He always says, "Excuse it, please." He climbs into his neighbor's garden And smiles and says, "I beg your pardon." He bows and grins a friendly grin, And calls his hungry family, in; He grins and bows a friendly bow, "So solly, this is my garden...
...believe that the original version of that poem, in the Religion article "What to Call the Preacher?" [Nov. 30], is from a novel about an Episcopal clergyman entitled The Chain. I recall its verses as follows...
...Poem is a tune...
...poem is a tune" was his "most important advice to a young poet," and he frequently typed his own poems as "pretty little rhymy ones." But his "Provide, Provide," he said, is "way over on the harsh side...