Word: poetics
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Amado (Gabriela) and Argentina's Jorge Luis Borges (A Personal Anthology), as one of Latin America's most important literary voices. His first major novel, The President (1946), was a razor-edged indictment of Cabrera-style caudillismo. Three years later, he completed Men of Corn, an intense, poetic treatment of the poverty, hopelessness and dark mysticism that haunt the life of the Guatemalan Indian. Over the next ten years, he produced a trilogy of political novels that attacked widespread "Yankee economic imperialism" in Guatemala, focusing-if sometimes too polemically -on the growth and power of the United Fruit...
...wonder is that Nelly Sachs could summon up a poetic vision that resolutely exorcised bitterness...
DUBLIN: A PORTRAIT, by V. S. Pritchett. Photographs by Evelyn Hofer. The faces, facades and streetscapes of Dublin, hauntingly captured in poetic pictures and luminous prose...
...Apropos of "Arabia Decepta: A People Self-Deluded" [July 14] is the poetic prose of T. E. Lawrence in Seven Pillars of Wisdom...
Searing Conviction. "Soul" combines searing emotional conviction, a surging rhythmic pulse, and earthy-poetic lyrics in updated variations on the Negro blues tradition. Long a staple of the "rhythm and blues" packaged for a chiefly Negro market, soul has increasingly influenced the work of white performers - notably rock 'n' rollers, many of whom frankly imitate Negro originals. Now, after the success of such Negro singers as Lou Rawls and Dionne Warwick, the authentic soul sound has come into its own in the white, teen-dominated pop market. "It satisfies a thirst for the idiomatic, the untrammeled, the pure...