Word: poetically
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Many of the old leaders, modern masters who held sway over the youthful poetic imagination for years, have now been dismissed or at least promoted to emeritus status by a generation that has little patience with the cerebral and the courtly. Scores of collegiate poets and critics questioned by TIME correspondents on campuses across the U.S. found T.S. Eliot "irrelevant," Robert Frost "too provincial," Dylan Thomas a "phony Welshman," W.H. Auden "a poet for the middle-aged." These men still have admirers, but they lack followers. If among the enshrined elders the seating order has been changed...
Denise Levertov ranges more widely and experiments more ingeniously with poetic form. She was born 47 years ago in England, the child of a Welsh mother and a Jewish intellectual who had become an Anglican priest. She lived through London's bombing raids and moved to the U.S. in 1948. Her commitment to matters political in part reflects the concerns of her husband, Writer Mitchell Goodman, who last year, along with Dr. William Spock, was convicted for urging students to resist the draft. But Levertov's most recent verse has been increasingly personal, an austere mixture of poise...
Jewish Batman. If anything, the book is too rich in such details, almost bursting its seams with worked-up mots and comic turns. But it is strung together in the end by the quasi-poetic image of Jake's mysterious cousin Joey, the horseman of the title. Joey is a movie stuntman, baseball player and soldier of fortune whose vaguely charted wanderings seem to take in all the barricades, from Madrid in 1938 to Jerusalem in 1967. Jake, convinced that Joey is now in Paraguay pursuing the infamous Dr. Mengele of Auschwitz, also sees him as a kind...
...tone of the letters is warm. At one point, the Berrigan letter addresses Sister Elizabeth as "love," and the Government is known to possess other letters of a more passionate and poetic character. How did the Government get these letters? They were carried in and out of the prison by Boyd Douglas, 30, a prisoner serving time for passing bad checks, pointing a gun at an FBI agent, and violating his parole on a previous fraud conviction. Douglas was trusted enough by prison officials to be allowed to leave his cell daily to attend history and political science classes...
...podium (because, he said, he had seen some men trying to flirt with her. He later warned them, "Boy, you'd rather be caught in Vietnam with a BB gun.") Ali made a clear distinction as to which black man can fight the best and why. He made a poetic predic-tion for the Frazier rematch, "... then Ali lands with a right, what a beautiful swing/ and the punch lifts Frazier clean out of the ring/ ... Who have thought when they came to the fight/ That they would witness the launching of a colored satellite...