Word: poetes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Saturday, May 10 ROD McKUEN: THE LONER (NBC, 8:30-9 p.m.). McKuen, poet, songwriter and recording star, puts on a one-man show...
...responsibilities are the same. "You must dedicate yourself," says Hutchins, "to trying to understand things, and you must do this without regard for your source of financing." Clearly, this means that intellectuals should not keep quiet. Are they also obliged to propose alternatives to policies that they condemn? Poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti believes that "the foremost contribution of intellectuals is dissent. To be opposed to the atomic bomb is not exactly negative thinking." It is also easy. The harder task is to be constructive about problems that are tougher because they may be soluble...
...name-calling days are probably not over, but in future Poet Allen Ginsberg may be more selective about his targets. In Tucson to give a poetry reading at the University of Arizona, Ginsberg held a typically empurpled news conference; then he began berating Arizona Republic Correspondent Bob Thomas about a story that had appeared in the Tucson Daily Citizen criticizing the poet for his self-proclaimed sexual aberrations. When Thomas finally walked away, the guru followed and shouted a string of obscenities at him. Mother, whose day is celebrated this week, seemed to have a prominent place in the epithets...
Last week, when the poet Giuseppe Ungaretti arrived in Cambridge on a voyage from Italy, it was as if the silence of history had been suddenly broken. Lissome and frail, miraculously animated for his eighty-one years, Ungaretti has been inexhaustible in the first days of his visit here, giving readings at Brandeis and Wellesley, drifting through Harvard Square, and talking far into the night about his life and of the age. Last Friday night he gave the first of two readings scheduled at Harvard, and brought to the small audience in Burr B a final sense of what poetry...
WHAT Ungaretti drew from the War was the peculiar knowledge of a "disabused modern consciousness," not d'Annunzio's heroic myth of the theatrical, but rather the awareness of anonymity and other sorrows. Influenced more by Giacomo Leopardi, the great Italian poet of the nineteenth century, and by Mallarmé, than by the aesthetic exigencies of his own age, Ungaretti shared with his close friends Apollinaire and the Fauvist Braque a profound despair over history's irrationality. But Apollinaire never survived the War, and those who did were so shattered and forlorn that their only response was that...