Word: poetes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tour of the U.S. last year took Soviet Poet Evgeny Evtushenlco 23,000 miles around the country and as far north as Alaska. It gave him the material for America and I Sat Down To gether, a collection of seven poems commissioned by Holiday magazine, some of which have also been published in his homeland. Evtushenko writes sadly of a trip to an Alaska fur farm (He who's conceived in a cage will weep for a cage); sharply of famous people (Allen Ginsberg-cagey prophet-baboon -thumps his hairy chest as a shaman thumps a tambourine); sentimentally...
Shored Against Ruin. Mrs. Valerie Eliot, the poet's widow, was given photographic copies of all the documents by the library, and she gave Yale Scholar Donald Gallup exclusive access to them. In the 20 hours available to him, Gallup produced several pages of detailed notes for the Times Literary Supplement, plus four illustrations photographed from the text. Of 57 sheets in the original Waste Land, 42 were unused; it is impossible at this stage to assess how much Ole Ez (as Pound liked to sign himself to friends) cut out, and to what extent Eliot...
...famous dedication of The Waste Land is "For Ezra Pound, il miglior fabbro," which even nonscholars of Italian can figure out to mean "the better craftsman." In this context, "craftsman" means "editor." It is well known that Eliot's great friend Poet Ezra Pound had been a severe editor who cajoled, bullied or advised Eliot to cut out half of what Pound described, with characteristically inaccurate flamboyance, "the longest poem in the English langwidge" (434 lines in the final version). A facsimile edition of Eliot's first draft, riddled with Pound's penciled comments, will be published...
...revolted by actual femininity to the point of refusing sexual intercourse. Conversely, They revile women for manifesting masculine qualities, aggression in particular. Women's books are reviewed as if they were women--criticized for being "shrill," praised for being "not shrill." Critics call Marianne Moore "the best women poet in America." Why not the best blue-eyed poet? In the Nov. 1 issue of Time Magazine (one of Their favorite mouthpieces), a group of books by women are reviewed in these terms: "mere female savagery," "hysterical," "measuring feminine eye," "becoming feminine pique over fit," "gruesome little stories," "all the women...
Owen that 'all a poet can do today is to warn.' But being a woman, her warning is more shrill, penetrating, visionary than Owen's. Owen's came out of the particular circumstances of the trenches, and there is nothing to make us think that if he had not been on the Western Front ... he would not have warned anyone about anything at all. He would have been a nice chap and a quiet poet. With Sylvia Plath, her femininity is that her hysteria comes completely out of herself...