Word: poetes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Coolidge would be hospitalized for logorrhea long before his train reached Bumpkinsville. The provincialism of Gopher Prairie and booster clubs, of Mencken's "booboisie" and Lewis' Babbittry, which believed that the outside world began at the end of Main Street and thought of Dante as "that Dago poet," is as dead as the America of button shoes and chicken every Sunday...
...Sister Mary Corita, the famed art teacher of Los Angeles' Immaculate Heart College. Last spring the magazine came briefly to national attention after it published-as a sly commentary on the Christian atheism of Thomas J. J. Altizer and William Hamilton-a mock obituary for God, written by Poet Anthony Towne in the noncommittal style of the New York Times. The obit had previously been turned down by The New Yorker, the Christian Century and, of course, the Times-which later reprinted...
...Goldfarb were a bad poet he would still be monumental; he is a good one, and magnificent. Tillinghast calls attention to a generously exploited strain of exhibitionism in the preceding verse...
...little difficult to suggest what it is that Grenier has accomplished, just as it was once difficult to understand what he promised. In a way, he fulfills William Carlos Williams' example and Charles Olson's precept together (Projective Verse , 1959: "A poem is energy transferred from where the poet got it, by way of the poem to, and all the way over to, the reader.... Form is never more than an extension of content.... One perception must immediately and directly lead to a further...."). But he is wholly sui generis; his present work seems to be of infinite potential...
Such attention to three superb writers involves slighting others equally good, and at least officially more mature. Richard Tillinghast, irrespressibly bright and in full control of his medium, makes capital out of conversation; James Tate, the Yale Younger Poet of the year, is a sharp, radiant poet with access to striking language; Stephen Sandy's skill and precision need no accolades. Howard Nemerov, Elizabeth Jackson Barker, Thomas Redshaw and the magazine's co-editor Timothy Mayo contribute to a very solid straight flush of poets, with no jokers...