Word: poetes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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RICHARD EBERHART is straight. There is no hint of absinthe on this poet's breath, no bitter edge to his voice, or evidence of spleen in his demeanor...
...have to ask me much," he said proudly. "I think I'll just read this to you out loud." The paper, to which he referred from time to time, dealt with the position of the poet in society, particularly with regard to the Vietnam...
...British in Palestine turned away refugee ships. The Australians, when asked if they would offer the Jews a haven, replied: "As we have no racial problem, we are not desirous of importing one." There were exceptions, but all too true, says Morse, was the epitaph that Polish-Jewish Poet Itzhak Katznelson wrote in his diary before he was gassed at Auschwitz: "Sure enough, the nations did not interfere, nor did they protest, nor shake their heads, nor did they warn the murderers, never a murmur...
Someone pointed out that Peter had cleaned off the pictures over the bar and Grogan began talking about his friend McNulty. He talked about McNulty's practical jokes and good deeds. With a tiny rhetorical flourish he remarked, "Never speak ill of the dead, and as the poet says, 'Goodbye, Good Prince, the flights of angels will sing thee to thy rest...
Levin's principals are Gore Taylor, a young American protest singer, and Igor Mikhailovitch, a young Russian protest poet, who meet in Israel as the Six-Day War is about to start. So Gore drives this fantastic ambulance, and Igor fixes a Russian tank captured from the Arabs. They become great buddies, of course, while a lot of studs get their brains shot out. But mainly, the war as here described amid all this profound Israeli scenery is like everybody squirting beer on each other at a fraternity picnic. All the action moves along double time, like a fast...