Word: sicklying
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Rounding out the poetry selections are four satires by Firman Houghton--those on Whitman and Houseman are especially funny--and an amusing "sick, sick, sick" poem by Daniel Langton called "A Modern Poem." They are skillful space fillers. Anne Sexton has five poems printed: all are sentimental--"And that's the Way it Was" inversely so. "The Exorcists" redeems itself in places and "Hutch" looks as if it ought to sound nice...
...mother goes to work every day and comes home tired all the time; so does my father, and he is sick at his stomach with ulcers. It seemed that everyone was always tired; that we were always getting up, going to work and school, coming home, eating, cooking meals, washing dishes and going to bed and getting up again. It seemed that it was too much for all of us, and that we were always tired. So I lay there in bed and planned how I was going to kill us all. I wanted to kill everyone quick...
...Michael: Alice Turner has been sick two weeks. Started with side ache and vomiting. Temperature 101.4, but it's down now. I've been giving her penicillin. Over...
...contemplates "David 0. Selznick, equally empty, equally to be loved, equally a coming Buddha." A hip peg in a square world, Ray meets his oddball twin in Japhy Ryder, a twinkly-eyed Zen Buddhist hobohemian who lives in a shack at Berkeley, Calif. Japhy's remedy for a "sick civilization" is mountain climbing. But before the two buddies hit the trail, Japhy initiates Ray in a nonascetic pastime he calls "yabyum,"*and it makes such fictional standbys as nude mixed bathing seem mid-Victorian. A yabyummy blonde compliantly strips to the buff to play the role of the "holy...
...runs away twice more, and each time returns sick, hungry and shaken by sexual collisions. Townspeople call him a voyou-a hooligan-and he plays the part to the hilt, scrawling obscenities in front of the church. But, barricaded in his room after a night of sousing, the voyou is also a voyant-a seer. One day a summons comes from Paris; a friend has mailed samples of Claude's work to famed Poet Maurice Druard. The older writer leaves his wife, and with him Claude lives in a green haze of absinthe. Egged on by Druard...