Word: poetes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...CARDEN, however, holds the stage and more right from the beginning. It's a pity he wasn't born five hundred years ago: he would have made some king a superb court jester. Not only is he madly ridiculous in his quivering intensity as the mad poet, he is incredibly coordinated as he juggles--with three balls, mind you--or somersaults or tweaks noses with a paddle-ball. He and his comrade the Captain (Michael Farrell) are rescued from hunger by Leander (George Sheanshang) and Crispin (Warren Motley), who have established credit with the Innkeeper (Richard Anderson) by means...
Positive: Compassionate, psychic, sacrificing Negative: Hypersensitive, melancholic, drifting Career: Poet, actor, interpreter, comedian
...group of artists and writers who meet there have for years been assiduously importing and translating Western books, plays and art publications. One of their leaders is slender, Jiři Kolář, now 54, essayist, play wright and, by general acknowledgment, Czechoslovakia's leading poet...
Mosaics of Rubble. Nine years ago, Kolář, who was primarily a symbolic poet, abandoned formal verse altogether. Now he spends nine hours a day gluing tiny fragments of newsprint and photographs onto plaques, bas-reliefs, house hold objects and sculpted forms. "I am still a poet," he says, "in the sense that I am a shaper of symbolic meanings from information spewed out by our technological civilization. But I'm using the poetry of objects because I feel that the irrational logic of our time cries out for fresh expression...
Occasionally, Miss Frame breathes life into her tale of death with her poet's gift of language. Indeed, the best part of the novel is an interlude of exuberant Joycean punning when Godfrey's death-scrambled brain cannot help turning words inside out. For example, he reads "The Drol's Pryer...