Word: poetes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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LANGSTON HUGHES by Milton Meltzer (Crowell, $4.50) is a good, straightforward biography of the late Negro poet, who saw, felt, understood and wrote about what it was like to be black in America...
...while Miss Schuck keeps up her half of Sugar Plum, the other and more important half just isn't there. The boy she meets is at the heart of Horovitz's piece; here is a kid who wants to be sensitive, wants to be a poet, wants to be in love. True, he is awkward and amusing (He writes poetry he does not understand, paraphrased from Zen poets), but he is also a human being. As performed by David Pollock, though, he is a silly comic prop--a cardboard version of Art Carney's Ed Norton characterization...
More Stately Mansions--The unfinished Eugene O'Neill play that picks up where "Touch of the Poet" left off. In its second American production at the THEATRE COMPANY OF BOSTON, 136 Mass...
...Slave & Birdbath--Two one-acters by LeRoi Jones and Leonard Melfi, respectively. Everyone knows about Mr. Jones, but few know about Mr. Melfi, a fine Cafe Le Mama playwright with a poet's heart. At the ATMA, 498 Tremont...
...past and minutely exposing the style of a swinger with inventive images that linger in the retina. Not all of the film works. Its sometimes derivative surface is equally indebted to Jean-Luc Godard and shampoo commercials. Even Edgar Guest would have been embarrassed by the lyrics that Pop Poet Rod McKuen composed to match his banal score. But Same makes his cast perform with the precision and refinement of a repertory company...