Word: poetic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Bernard Malamud have collections of short stories, both domestic, the one (The World of Apples) waspish and suburban, the other (Rembrandt's Hat) Jewish and urban. Evan S. Connell Jr., once more roving far from the Bridges of Kansas City, has produced Points for a Compass Rose, a poetic meditation upon the pain and perplexity of life, with instances taken from history and myth...
Dubuffet's position is odd. The products of a foe of "orthodox" beauty, his tarry clumps of mud and orange peel, highly insured, decorate half the bon bourgeois salons of Paris. The author of many eloquent tracts, he speaks in defense of incoherence and illiteracy as poetic principles. An intellectual, Cartesian to the fingertips and a close friend of such literary eminences as Raymond Queneau, Jean Paulhan and FranÇois Ponge, he has based 30 years of work on the premise that Western culture is a grotesque irrelevancy. Dubuffet is indeed a quintessentially French figure...
...indeterminable. Scottish Essayist Thomas Carlyle once noted that man must "always worship something−always see the Infinite shadowed forth in something finite." At the moment, the something worshiped is science, and the something finite is quasar OH471, the blaze marking the edge of the universe. But before the poetic notion of infinity is crushed between the calipers of science, it is best to remember that quasars were discovered only a decade ago. More probably, what astronomers are really viewing is precisely what they have always viewed−the edge of their own vision...
...Resist...Resist the insurance of professorships ... Perform ... be tough ... Move beyond urban anxiety to the next era, our era ... Now is the time for art to lead man." If there are times when poetic manifestos are needed, this is one of them, and Dey has made himself a man of the moment. But I really don't know whether poets will sift out Dey's commitment from the quirks of his style. As manifestos should be, "On the Spot" is daring and cranky; depending on how you look at it, though, its manner can be so self-consciously elevated that...
Hindu philosophy has long attracted Western minds. The poetic thought of the Upanishads helped nurture the 19th century American transcendentalism of Ralph Waldo Emerson. But it was only in 1893, when a charismatic young man named Swami Vivekananda came to the World Parliament of Religions in Chicago, that Hinduism first put down roots in the West. The message the swami brought was Vedanta Hinduism, a classical Hindu school revived and refined by the 19th century Hindu mystic, Ramakrishna...