Word: prose
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Although the images interspersed in the sketchy prose are sometimes provoking--such as the "fish-slippery pavement" or "champagne on the terraces"--Pete's poetry is absolutely atrocious. Surprisingly, the same artist who penned ballads like "The Sea Refuses No River" and "Blue, Red and Grey" during his songwriting career fails dramatically when it comes to writing verse unaccompanied by music. For no apparent reason, Pete includes fragments of his poetry at the book's beginning, bizarre stuff like...
...more than 40 books, mostly intricately plotted historico- romantic melodramas liberally peopled with schemers and rogues, including Dear and Glorious Physician (1959), Testimony of Two Men (1968) and Captains and the Kings (1972), delighted her legions of fans but drew the contumely of critics for their outsize characterizations, empurpled prose and increasingly far-right political views; in Greenwich, Conn...
Ulysses Grant sat on the porch and marched armies across his memory. He called them up through cocaine and morphine, through the pain in his throat, and into a perfect clarity of prose. He fought the war minutely all over again: Shiloh and Vicksburg, the slaughters of the Wilderness, Cold Harbor, where men were so sure of death that they pinned their names and addresses on their jackets for easy identification when they fell. And at last, the mythy set piece of Appomattox, where Lee came as the elegant last cavalier, and Grant, a shabby cigar stub...
Wilkinson, whose own prose style combines wit with understatement, is canny enough to give the flamboyant Bunting his head, quoting not only his anecdotes but such side comments as his thoughts on flounder ("I don't eat nothing with both eyes on the same side of the head"). The book is filled with whiteliquor lore, including a description of all the impurities to be found in moonshine: "Maggots spawn in mash. Rats, snakes, owls, possums, foxes, and other small creatures find their way to it and drink it and get drunk and fall in and drown." What Wilkinson does best...
DIED. Robert Nathan, 91, author of more than 50 volumes of romantic poetry and wry, whimsical prose, including the novels The Bishop's Wife (1928) and Portrait of Jennie (1940), both of which were later made into successful films; of kidney failure; in Los Angeles...