Word: poetes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Rare Moment. At week's end the Czech poet Miroslav Holub compared the Soviet attitude to that of the medieval Popes who denied that the earth moves around the sun. "This country is in the position of Giordano Bruno,"* wrote Holub in the journal Literárni Listy. "We are supposed to deny everything that we know to be true. We are to admit that the sun is revolving, and that we are facing a counter-revolution." Czechoslovakia is obviously unwilling to do so. "Rarely are there moments," concluded Holub, "when a people is as certain...
...enacted, so to speak, the first chapters of Genesis. At first, he covered his canvas with spots, drips and washes. Then from this primordial chaos, he created an ordered series of lines, and sketched in sun-and moonlike heads to represent the first two primal people. Poet André Breton, spiritual spokesman for surrealism, once called Miró "the most surrealist of us all." It is a title that he himself feels he has outgrown. "I am a free man, I hate labels," he protests. "I am not a cyclist with a number on my back...
...FESTIVAL. "Carl Sandburg Remembered" includes eulogies by President Johnson and Poets Archibald MacLeish and Mark Van Doren and recordings by the late great poet himself...
...Pompidous entertain frequently, both at large receptions at the Matignon and at dinner parties for twelve in their apartment, where Pompidou holds forth on everything from his favorite nouvelle vague film director (Jean-Luc Godard) to his favorite poet (Baudelaire, whose work he never reads "without emotion"). In fact, Pompidou ranks somewhere among the literati himself, having begun work on two novels ("It would be entertaining to be a writer") and edited a widely used anthology of French poetry...
Welcome to Xanadu is a typical new thriller, as was John Fowles's The Collector. The plot is of the old-fashioned boy-terrorizes-girl variety-but with a psychotic twist added. Leonard Hatch, a self-styled poet spouting Nietzsche, comes down out of the New Mexico mountains, kidnaps a tomboyish 16-year-old farm girl and carries her back to his retreat in the hills. Soon, one learns that he is a fugitive from a mental institution, suffering from the endemic new thriller malady: an acute case of mothering so smothering that he is impotent...