Word: poetes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sluggish snail has turned out to be far more deadly than the anonymous poet knew. For years, scientists have been busier than the old song's tailors, trying to kill certain species that carry human and animal diseases, notably the microscopic parasite that causes schistosomiasis, an ancient and virtually incurable ailment common in many warm countries. Though a selective chemical capable of destroying the guilty snails is under development and shows high promise (TIME, July 5), Cornell Entomologist Clifford O. Berg thinks that a more practical approach would be to encourage the snail's natural enemies...
...Washington mental institution in 1958, Ezra Pound, 77, hightailed it to Italy, muttering that he "didn't know how it would be possible to live in America outside a madhouse." But last week, after he was named this year's winner of the prestigious Academy of American Poets Award for "distinguished poetic achievement," the Faustian-bearded poet had mellowed somewhat on his stand: "I was and still am very surprised and moved. This changes a lot of things. If I feel well, if the weather is good and the circumstances are favorable, I think I will make...
...attempt to explore and revive these origins is illustrated in a new anthology, Poems from Black Africa (Indiana University Press; $4.95), edited by U.S. Negro Poet Langston Hughes. Some of the poets are self-consciously primitive, and a few of the English-speaking ones write with echoes of T. S. Eliot or Gerard Manley Hopkins. But they are also busy transcribing and translating traditional folk poetry and evolving what Anthologist Hughes hopefully describes as a literature that "walks with grace and already is beginning to achieve an individuality quite...
Most of the black New Wave poets are concerned with négritude, a French word for the essence of blackness and, by extension, for a world in which despair is white, while God and innocence are black. Many writers celebrate nature and memories of a pristine Africa. Most are preoccupied by the West's failure to understand them. But in their poetry-if not in their U.N. speeches-Africans waste surprisingly little time inveighing against imperialism, notwithstanding a tirade by a part-time poet named Patrice Lumumba, the late, rabblerousing Congolese leader ("For a thousand years, you, African...
...playboy. "The kind of man that men follow and women chase" is how one Peruvian woman defines it. But the trait goes farther than simple male ego. It turns arguments into blood feuds, business dealings into tests of strength, and heroic revolutionaries into ruthless tyrants. Says the Mexican poet Octavio Paz: "One word sums up the aggressiveness, insensitivity, invulnerability and other attributes of the macho: power. It is force without discipline or any notion of order; arbitrary power, the will without reins and without a set course...