Word: shortish
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rapid clip in a loud, racy voice. Most poets simply intone; Dickey almost roars. His performance in Lowell Lecture Hall featured more commentary than poetry; his gift as a raconteur tends to run away with him. In the space of about fifty minutes he read perhaps seven shortish poems, the balance of time being taken up with tales of Civil War relics and films about Jean Harlow. His audience ate it up. His touch of natural Southern rhetoric is quickly evident; he is somewhat oratorical even in conversation. His whole manner is flavored with an exuberant self-indulgence. The brashness...
Caroms consists of eight shortish poems on various topics, displaying various degrees of skill. In all of them, however--and this is refreshing to see--the poet has worked slowly and carefully, has obviously weighed each word for accuracy and appropriateness, has listened for its value and effect. In his most successful poems, Mr. Sandy is a quiet and reflective poet, filtering his impressions through an attitude of thin irony; in his less effective poems he is a pyro-technician mixing together dissimilar images, and coming up with something considerably less impressive and less compelling than his more lucid work...