Word: poetes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...another, far worthier than I, express what lies in this feeble soul. Let the Poet sing...
...against the surface, rages The American Civil War, the real one. A lost Confederate general, so scared he hears himself calling out his own name, "running through the casual but chess-like deaths in the Wilderness." A headlike corpse. Upstairs and downstairs. Marijuana smoke and cannon smoke. As the Poet sings: "A punctured lung, and the band plays on." The perfect Setup...
...University of South Carolina, the former football star is having difficulty deciding whether to accept an offer to train with an N.F.L. team to write about his experiences. "I'm resisting the whirlwind of journalism," he says. "If I've finally achieved any distinction as a poet, then my primary aim is to explore the paths I've so laboriously come on. I've been looking forward for years just to sitting down and writing poems." Dickey has already proved that being a fine poet and a first-rate journalist are not mutually exclusive...
...Pursue. One of the greatest sportsmen of all time was a medieval French knight named Gaston Phebus, Comte de Foix, who cut a dashing figure in the 14th century with his white armor and white charger. Renowned not only as a huntsman but as a lover, a poet and a diplomat, Gaston kept a stable of 600 riding horses, hundreds of stag, buck and boar hounds, and the fastest fleet of greyhounds in medieval Europe. The chase in the Middle Ages was an immensely sophisticated pursuit. Knowing better than any man of his day how it should be pursued, Gaston...
...they already conduct with Japan. Eventually, oil will mean far more to the state than gold, of which about $750 million worth has been mined since 1880. Only $760,000 worth will be produced this year, as Alaska continues to run out of the metal that ruined those whom Poet Service called "the crippled and palsied and slain...