Word: poeticizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...unlike the fading School of Paris surface-obsessed abstractionists, he plays with figurative analogies. And he broods over his titles as if they were poetic essays, giving to them all the multiple layers of meaning he intends his paintings to convey. Words, he believes, are important. Hundertwasser ("hundred waters" in German) should know. He was originally christened more prosaically Fríedrich Stowasser ("dammed-up water"). If nothing else, he has learned how to let loose...
...might learn a lot from this," philosophized Producer Levine. But what? For one thing, not to bring in even a musical with such a predictable, progressionless plot. Nor one with such woeful gags or sappy lyrics ("I'll take you where it snows and talk poetic prose"). Among other liabilities: no name star to sell the benefit fringe...
Poverty could be quite poetic, though (the shoot of a chinaberry tree has been planted hopefully in the wasteland), if it wasn't for Miss Kate, the spinster guardian who keeps threatening to have Henry sent back to prison if he don't give up that fool music. When Miss Kate dies, Henry flies into a necro-filial rage and attacks the poor soul in her very grave. That sort of thing makes a bad impression in Columbus, Texas. Soon Georgette and her daughter are alone again, smiling through their tears as the young deputy Mr. Slim...
This is supposed to be poetic prose, but one of Buechner's characters has a different idea. "Words are my undoing," he confesses to a friend. "My unraveling. Like a golf ball when you take the cover off-all those miles and miles of rubbery string. I've been reeling words out of my gut for years, I suppose to find out one day what there is at the middle of me." The friend thoughtfully replies that at the middle, as far as he can see, there is "a little kernel of warm, stale...
...relatively short span of 16 years as probably the most highly regarded of U.S. literary awards. Since 1948, when a distinguished jury stirred a furor by awarding the initial prize to Ezra Pound,* the list of Bollingen winners has amounted to a virtual roll call of U.S. poetic merit. Among them: Wallace Stevens, Marianne Moore, W. H. Auden, Conrad Aiken, William Carlos Williams, Theodore Roethke. After the 1962 award to Robert Frost, the frequency of the prize was cut to every two years, but the prize money doubled to $5,000. Now the first poet to win the enriched Bollingen...