Word: poet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...French poet Baudelaire should be chosen as the patron Satan of college students vacationing in Florida [TIME, April 13]. His words, "Be drunken always . . . nothing else matters," could be incorporated into a fine party song, and the beaches and motels of Fort Lauderdale would have little trouble passing for the streets and houses of Paris that he so vividly described...
...bookings in the mail. For newcomers, Mrs. Clark's auditions may be the first real break (young Edgar Bergen did monologues for women's clubs before he got his first dummy), and for oldtimers, they may be the last one. In 1929 Mrs. Clark took in penniless Poet Edwin (The Man with the Hoe) Markham, got him going on the circuit, reciting poetry. Though Markham, then 80, could never remember where he put the ladies' checks, Mrs.Clark recalls proudly that creamed chicken kept him going until he died...
Long a near monopoly of French publishers, the practice of wedding word and image in sybaritic luxury is now being tried experimentally in the U.S. with startling success. In Los Angeles, Painter June Wayne, 41, took a flyer by publishing the poems of 17th century Poet John Donne, illustrated by 14 of her own lithographs. The lithographs were pulled in Paris, the text printed in Berlin. At $225 a copy, Lithographer Wayne's edition of 110 seems likely to be a sellout by year...
Died. Reginald Arkell, 76, British novelist (Old Herbaceous), poet, editor and author of numerous musical revues including 1066 and All That; in Cricklade, England. Lampooning the U.S. Prohibition era, Arkell once presented the Statue of Liberty on the London stage with a bottle of whisky in her right hand, fended off transatlantic complaint with the reflection: "Americans made themselves ridiculous over Prohibition without any assistance from...
...amusing pieces in the chapbook (Chaucerian jargon for this sort of collection) are not really supposed to be taken seriously. Cast From a Coffee House Comedy and Verbatim II have some funny lines, and some neat images, but lack coherence. Also in Cast From a Coffee House Comedy, the poet rhymes quartz with schmaltz, which is enough to stop any reader right there. The prose poem Battery Manhattan again has its brief moments, but is cluttered with incomplete sentences which have no function, and forced quaintness of expression. Mr. Phelps does however call the cry of a sea gull "Crake...