Word: poetics
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...same tongue." But unhappily, intelligible dialogue between American and Russian nightingales is severely inhibited, partly in the matter of language, chiefly by the nature of Yevtushenko's nonpoetical preoccupations. The handicap is not so much that his muse is a Marxist but that she is a public creature: poetic sensibility in the West is involved in more private, perhaps more eternal matters...
...Stalinism. But sometimes, when he dreams of "Hindus in machine-gun wagons/ And Peruvians in helmets and sheepskin jerkins," or when he visualizes Marshal Budenny "galloping all over Africa,/ And I, of course, galloping right after him," the effect is quite other than intended. The image of the dynamic poetic dramaturge fades, to be replaced by that of another poet laureate, Alfred Lord Tennyson, inflamed with patriotic ardor over the breakfast table and dashing off Form! Form! Riflemen Form!-to be published in the Times, please the Queen, and possibly encourage the redcoats...
...Secret. In his public readings, Yevtushenko comes to much truer poetic life when he sings of The City of Yes and the City of No, which contrasts suffocating authoritarianism with total permissiveness...
...richer for the record; and we are more impressive as a nation because a publisher can print that record and sell it in an open bookstore, sell it legally." Mailer went on to say that there should be no censorship. Allen Ginsberg also testified to the novel's poetic value and read the Supreme Judicial Court justices a poem he had composed in its praise...
...music copyist. Somewhere along the line, tramping the road to Vincennes, he underwent a sort of religious experience, and concluded that revealing the truth about himself would reveal the truth to all other men. It cannot be said that he was very good at it, though the poetic cloud with which he haloed his life story is luminous to this...