Word: poetes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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SAINT GENET, by Jean-Paul Sartre. The eminent existentialist argues that Jean Genet, thief, pederast, poet, pornographer, playwright (The Blacks), is a walking allegory of modern...
...BLUE LANTERN, by Colette. The great French novelist's last major work, written when she was crippled by arthritis, is an unsentimental record of how it was with a poet of the senses whose senses were failing...
Raymond Radiguet, Cocteau took to opium, later kicked the habit and led a campaign against dope addiction. At moments he could be as sentimental as any Piaf song, which is why it was difficult to take him seriously as a poet of evil. Yet guardians of public morality damned his books (Les Parents Terribles), plays (The Infernal Machine), and films (Beauty and the Beast) as immoral and unhealthy...
...find out where Jackie Kennedy and the Onassis yacht Christina were. No one could say. Only the White House was able to keep tabs with a special microwave hookup. Culture-conscious Jackie was charting her own Odyssey, over to Lesbos for a look at the island where the poet Sappho was supposed to have thrown herself into the sea. Then on to Crete for a session with Sister Lee Radziwill, clambering around labyrinthian Minoan ruins. The last stop was at Delphi, where, intent on the guide's words, she stumbled into a pothole. The First Lady quickly scrambled...
...mind and to the blue note paper on which she recorded it. The Blue Lantern, written between 1946 and 1948 and now translated into English for the first time, is Colette's last major work-a moving but unsentimental record of how it was with a poet of the senses whose senses were failing...