Word: poems
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...item into a case history of arrested adolescence. He has supplemented the story of the Swansea son of an overattentive mother and dissapointed schoolteacher father with some fresh evidence. A former baby sitter recalls the child Dylan as "an absolute tartar, an appalling boy." At twelve, he plagiarized a poem and had it published in the Cardiff Western Mail As a young reporter in Swansea, Thomas developed his heavy drinking habits for, Ferris suggests, "the pleasure of being rescued afterwards." He was obsessed with fears of sexual inferiority, and he never outgrew a compulsive need to steal from family, friends...
Publication of a poem sent to me with some roses is a fine example of the distortion in your article. As the student knows who sent the roses, his purpose was to offer (albeit, without direct reference) apology for his rather startling display of abusive language, bad manners, anb insolence in conversation with me. No one could have been more disappointed than I when he drew No. 1 in the lottery for transfers then in progress. Thus, in light of his previous discourtesies, if I were given to injecting personal preferences into the system, my preference would have left...
...death was his best poem, and Crosby, dead...
Their context is a remark by Stephane Mallarme: "The intellectual core of a poem conceals itself, is present-is active-in the blank space which separates the stanzas and in the white of the paper: a pregnant silence, no less wonderful to compose than the lines themselves...
...charge that Peking itself is "a murdered town, a disfigured ghost of what was once one of the most beautiful cities in the world." The fabulous imperial Forbidden City remains; so does the exquisitely harmonious Temple of Heaven -marred only by a huge red screen bearing the inevitable Mao poem. But the capital's ancient wall and magnificent gates have been torn down. Dozens of graceful arches have been destroyed. Whole neighborhoods have been bulldozed for broad, eerily empty avenues. The reasons once again have to do with the politics of totalitarianism. "Exalting deserts of tarmac" are required...