Word: poetes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Dead Rat on a Plate. Seven months later, at a poetry reading at Queens College in New York, the poet replied to a student who asked him what he thought of the Sinyavsky-Daniel trial: "Your question is like inviting someone to dinner and then putting a dead rat on his plate." In 1968, while a number of Russian intellectuals were being tried on patently fabricated charges, Evtushenko was on a three-month tour of Latin America. At a Mexico City press conference, he repeated his attacks on Sinyavsky and Daniel, now adding that other imprisoned writers were involved...
...always been a part of the political establishment, and as such was able to do a lot of good in his time," she says. Oxford's Russian specialist, Max Hay ward, is also dismayed by the severity of the attacks on Evtushenko, and points out that the poet, who is now 35, has long been treading a perilous double course between compliance and resistance, in a sincere struggle for the liberalization of Russia. "But you get tired, you get old, you want comfort," Hayward says. "Evtushenko is a decent person who has succumbed to pressures that are almost inhuman...
...first journalistic assignment Dickey covered the Apollo 7 blast-off for LIFE. While other reporters filed millions of words on the event's scientific and political import, the prolific poet (six collections in the last eight years) turned instead to the human drama: as they plunge with...
...years ago, Poet James Dickey, whose Buckdancer's Choice won the 1966 National Book Award for Poetry received a letter from a friend who had visited a home for blind children and watched as they smashed their fists against their eyes to produce a momentary shock of light. Their agony tormented him so much that he wrote, in the November Harper's, a brilliantly brooding poetic fantasy, The Eye-Beaters. It was made particularly jolting because of Dickey's marginal notations, written with the stark understatement of a wire-service reporter. "A therapist explains why the children...
...then in Atlanta. In August 1961, to devote himself to poetry, he quit his job and supported his wife and two sons on small family savings and welfare checks. Six months later, they left for a year in Europe, courtesy of a $5,000 Guggenheim fellowship. Temporary terms as poet-in-residence at Reed, San Fernando Valley State and Wisconsin, and as successor to Stephen Spender as poetry consultant to the Library of Congress, have occupied him since...