Word: romanticizers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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SINCE I could never write poetry, poets have always been romantic heroes for me. And now more than ever. It awes me that poets can survive Watts, Vietnam, and television to write more poems. Not that history has made poetry obsolete: it has merely conspired to outlaw it and made...
But somehow, in between terrifying epiphanies about the death of civilization and the end of art, a few brave souls have had the nerve to put together another issue of the Advocate. That would be charming, almost quaint, if this latest effort were not so good. Romantic heroes they remain...
Though some of the creative efforts are very fine, notable Warren Perkins' story, "A Celebration," our romantic heroes are really at their best in criticism. There they confront their tradition and are forced to ask, as John Lewis does in a tribute to Conrad Aiken, "Is it we or our...
IT USED TO BE that travelling home was a romantic act, a symbolic journey from the confines of college to an all-too-familiar house (memories of confinement). The two places were similar: they were both places you had to go to and stay awhile. Between them there was the...
All of that is still there, but I haven't seen it since Youth Fare. The airlines took my money and added local color to their flights. I was reluctant to submit at first. One vacation I even shunned their offer and caught a train, but it was no use...