Word: poetes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...addition to Ehrenburg (a venerable intellectual with remarkable resiliency and staying power) the chief symbol in the West of dissonance in Soviet literature is the young poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko...
...both poet and physician, each as a profession in itself, and each thanks to the other. He had mastered the knack of treating poems as patients and patients as poems, and both were the better for it. His life was in careful balance...
Between patients, he wrote poems, but he never had to struggle to keep the poet from wasting the doctor's good time: when patients called, the poet was uninterrupted. "To treat a man as material for a work of art," he once wrote, "makes him somehow come alive to me." In his poems, the patients moved among the hard images of industrial New Jersey and the harder images of brutality the poet found there. His poems were like snapshots-rough, direct, staccato glimpses...
...uncritically generous-at birth, any little quarterly could count on a blurb and a bouquet of free poems as a present from him. He had no vanity, no avarice, no conceit, but he had strong and angry flashes of pride that described him perfectly in his poet's pose...
Last week, at 79, he died of a cerebral hemorrhage, at home in Rutherford, in his sleep. He had been in frail health since 1950, and his death, his wife said, "was a long time coming." He had a physician's strong resistance to sentimentalizing death, but his poet's resistance was stronger still. Death, to him, was the enemy of experience, more shameful than saddening, and the dead were zeros that "love cannot touch." Having long treated patients as poems, Williams once said farewell with a poem that, in all his rash toughness, he might well have...