Word: poetes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...last week was Arion's even better second issue, with English Poet Christopher Logue's new version of The Iliad's Book XVI, which culminates in a bloody battle between Greeks and Trojans. Among Logue's curdling visual effects...
...prize as the best teacher at Texas. They view translation as reseeing and refeeling of structure and meaning. Carne-Ross argues: "The translator's job is to get inside the text, to work his way through the words and relive the informing experience which lies behind them." Poet Logue has done just that for The Iliad, says Carne-Ross, and so proved that "it wasn't dead at all, it had merely been embalmed. Thanks to Logue's irresponsible behavior. Homer is on the move once more. The genie is out of the bottle...
Poetry's Rational Man was long ago shipped off to Understanding's rest home, where for half a century he has quietly reminisced about the days when things were as they seemed to be. Poets since then, obsessed by various psychiatric worries and the sound words make when dropped at random, have largely ignored poetry's old didactic chore: refining and explaining experience. The occasional poet who addresses man's need to know the lessons poetry alone can teach (Robert Lowell, for example) has seemed remarkably clear-perhaps even brave. Such a poet is Anthony Ostroff...
...poets die wealthy, and lower-case Poet E. E. Cummings, who died three weeks ago, was no exception. In his will, signed with upper-case capitals and filed for probate in Manhattan Surrogate's Court, he left personal possessions valued at a mere $15,000 to his wife Marion, and "suggested" that she give to their daughter, his sister and two close friends whatever "they'd enjoy remembering...
...long run it is no easier to compare poets with poets than it is to compare peaches with blueberries. The epitaph that Cummings probably would have liked best had nothing to do with the critical ranking of poets. It was spoken by Fellow Poet Archibald MacLeish: "There are very few people who deserve the word poet. Cummings was one of them...