Word: poet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When a Polish Communist poet (Adam Wazyk) can publish such eloquent and disturbing words in a Polish Communist journal, something is astir in Communist Poland...
...setting Cocteau retains Thrace but he brings the action up, or perhaps the audience back, to the present. Orpheus, ably portrayed by Paul Schmidt as full of moodiness and intensity, becomes a young poet dissatisfied with success. In disgust he turns his search for meaning to the sayings spelled out by a horse which has followed him home. His wife, Eurydice, however, is left bored by the proceedings, and Susan Howe lends much grace and a sort of charming coquetry to her attempts to snap Orpheus out of his infatuation with the horse. In another departure Cocteau introduces an entirely...
...State. Under Governor MunÕz Marin, Puerto Rico's political innovations have kept pace with the economy. MunÕz is uniquely fitted for island leadership. The son of a famed Puerto Rican statesman, he grew up in Washington, lived for a while as a Greenwich Village poet and intellectual, then returned to Puerto Rico. By hinterlands campaigning for "Bread, Land and Liberty," he developed a powerful backing among the peasant farmhands, and in 1940 became a Senator and an influential leader. In 1948 he became Puerto Rico's first elected governor (and was re-elected...
...sedately styled cover of the first issue is a red-and-black lyrebird drawn by Mobilist Alexander Calder as a symbol of the editor's feeling that "the lyrical spirit is badly needed in poetry today." Between the covers appear works by an honor guard of Anglo-American poets, among them Robert Graves, Roy Campbell, W. H. Auden, Marianne Moore, E. E. Cummings. The spur behind the would-be poetic renaissance is an unusual editor-poet and long-time friend of poets and poetry, Thurairajah Tambimuttu...
...bookstalls last month, at a cost of about $6,000, and an unsolicited angel, Dwight Ripley, "an American painter educated at Harrow," made up the bulk of the deficit. Tambi pays his contributors "according to need" at a top rate of $1.25 a line, but most of the poets in the first issue donated their poems. A soft-spoken man who chainsmokes Pall Malls and dresses in Indian fashion, Tambi bills his own services at $80 a week, agrees with T. S. Eliot that every poet should have a job other than poetry...