Word: poetes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Elektra). As the folk scene fades, the folk singers scatter. Judy Collins, one of the best, has not gone far afield to find this mixed bag of songs, some sentimental (including the title number, a sweetmeat from the Beatles), some revolutionary (Marat/Sade). Her songwriters include Leonard Cohen, a Canadian poet who makes good use of Collins' dark, low voice and powerful delivery; his Dress Rehearsal Rag is a five-minute saga of a has-been on "the long way down...
...they returned to Yale. Hadden took up again as chairman of the Daily News; Luce became its managing editor as well as a contributor of poetry to the literary magazine. "I came to the conclusion," Luce later said, "that I was never going to be a really good poet, so the hell with it." He and Hadden reorganized the Daily News, then determined to go into newspaper work because of their experience there. The "paper" that they had discussed at Camp Jackson still remained a vague and undefined objective. Luce sailed for England to study history at Oxford; Hadden went...
...Place for Us" by John Allman traces the movement of the poet's mind as it leaps back and forth between an immediate situation and an ominous vision. As he sits in a restaurant the poet embarks on unpredictable imaginative flights which confuse him and embarrass the girl sitting next to him. By placing the real and the imagined events side-by-side, Allman manages to capture the suddenness of the mental fluctuations wthout imitating their incoherence: I order coffee...
...poet passed his 60th birthday in the midst of a six-week reading tour at colleges in the U.S. Back in London, the Sunday Times invited some of W. H. Auden's rhyming friends to celebrate the event. Stephen Spender, Christopher Logue, Maurice Wiggin and Ted Hughes all sent in earnest occasional paeans...
...light-verse forms are as rare as septuplets, and as vulnerable. Latest in the long line of poetic inventions-and, it is to be hoped, not too vulnerable-is the double dactyl, the result of a collaboration of two poet-professors, Anthony Hecht of Bard College and John Hollander of Hunter. According to the rules set forth in Jiggery-Pokery (112 pages; Atheneum; $3.95), all the poems must begin with a double-dactyl nonsense line such as "higgledy-piggledy" or "jiggery-pokery." Thereafter comes a famous name-also double dac tylic-followed by another double dactyl and a line...