Word: readers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...almost 210 years, the U.S. has muddled along without an official poet laureate. This lack did not noticeably hinder the work of such natives as Poe, Whitman, Dickinson, Eliot, Pound, Stevens, Frost and Robert Lowell. But it bothered Hawaiian Senator Spark Matsunaga, an avid reader and sometimes writer of poems, including one called Ode to a Traffic Light ("Impartial traffic cop/ That blushingly speeding cars do stop...
...itinerant, raffish life of the black musician in the '20s and '30s. The Jim Crow working conditions provoke little bitterness. All he wanted, says the Count, was "to play music and have a ball." Basie and Murray get that spirit into their book, and now it is the reader who has the ball...
...decide that "little of West's qualification was heard." Additionally, Barron's prose intimates that West is little better than an anti-semite, which is emphatically not the case. Mr. Barron seems to be perturbed that "Black intellectuals stop worrying about what Jews think," although it seems to this reader that Mr. Barron's objections are precisely the opposite: that Black intellectuals do not care sufficiently about what Jews think. Neither group, I should imagine, is at the point where their respective intellectual discourses should be shaped by a what-does-the-other-side-think reactionism. To indicate that...
...author, forcing him to abdicate his control, leaving him the power only to make wry interjections. With the collapse of any external control the words become coldly manipulative and unbearable--more terrifying than in the first two tales, in which the violence of Angelo's language interrupts the reader's attempt to identify with the characters...
...THIS BOOK that leaves no foothold for the reader, there does remain something outside and parallel to the story--the author's native country, Brazil. The repressive police, poverty, unemployment and brutally manipulative government are not merely the imaginative creations of Ivan Angelo...