Word: poetics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...emergence as a strong individual performer. For years, his excellent musical talents in writing and performing were submerged in the successful group efforts of Peter, Paul, and Mary. On their last several albums two of Peter's songs appeared which showed his ability to craft honest, direct, yet thoughtfully poetic pieces: "The Great Mandella" and "Day is Done." Bassman Bob Coucher and guitarist Ralph Towner helped him perform his music with extraordinary richness, enhancing Peter's naturally powerful and sensitive tenor...
...groin except that of her woefully plastered boy friend (William Hickey); a drunken doctor (David Hooks) who kills when he aborts and a sardonically nihilistic homosexual (Alan Mixon). The world casts stones; Williams applies the balm of compassion to the bruises. In his eyes and under his poetic alchemy, these people become the embodiment of the fears that course through all of us at some time or other, the frailties that make us lie, betray any trust, cringe before bullies, vilify others-though in our hearts we wish to do none of those things...
Given the nature of black experience no single academic discipline will provide the training to understand the complexity of the subject. Economics, politics, poetic expression, the history of ideas, sociology and so on intersect when simply describing aspects of this experience. I associate myself with the view that Afro-American Studies is an interdisciplinary field of inquiry, not an academic discipline. Before a student is able fully to concentrate in the subject, a thorough grounding in an established discipline should be required. From the student's point of view, only then will he or she be prepared to pursue professional...
...Tall Pine Trees," Peter's own well-developed sense of the poetic complements a melody reminiscent of Eastern European folk music. "Beautiful City" sounds very much like some of Peter, Paul and Mary's early work. Other songs, although they have weak points here and there, are on the whole good. Peter has not definitively decided where his music should go, but has produced the most convincing evidence of an attempt to borrow from the old in order to create a more meaningful...
...little to do with our basic experiences as I.M. Pei has to do with Route 66, Dickey holds up Theodore Roethke, the Michigan poet who celebrated the greenhouses and gardens of his early life with simple, crystalline language, as the kind of poet who can bring off the new poetic revolution against these oppressive forces. Roethke is a good start, but we need someone who can not only get back toward basic things and basic-sounding statements about them but who can also embrace the traffic jams, the dynamoes and the Hype Machine without knuckling under or evading their essences...