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...most of the '60s, the nation was transfixed by its darker side, as if some impulse of Ahab were obsessively driving it to a suicidal reunion with an evil deep in its own nature. The astronauts reasserted the chief mate Starbuck's cool, professional sanity. Not intellect, but intelligence. Not evil, but remediable errors, course corrections, chatter from Capcom to Houston. In the Middle American version, the Pequod steers for home: Moby Dick is a holdful of whale oil for the nation's lamps...
...well as a ship, and that journey goes willfully off course. What is missing is the tragic sense. Captain Ahab is an authentic tragic hero; Welles makes him merely a monomaniac of vengeance. In book and play, Ahab speaks of the "malice inscrutable" of the White Whale. His mate Starbuck, the voice of reason, reminds him that "a poor dumb thing" can have no malice. What Welles fails to grasp is that it is the inscrutability that maddens Ahab, for Moby Dick is the universal mystery of things as they are. When Ahab probes with his lance for the great...
...cannot hope to turn again from this magazine without a much needed comment on the book reviews. The Advocate's remarks on Starbuck's Bone Thoughts and Updike's Rabbit, Run indulge in uninteresting and solecistic analyses of form. A most interesting example of galloping ineptitude includes the following sentence, whose prose more or less captures the spirit of all the Advocate critics: "Right or wrong, we are all like Rabbit, but only Rabbit runs, not escaping, though there is that too, an element of panic in his flight, but towards an impossible freedom and meaning, which, if captured, would...
Previous readings have included poets David Ferry, George Starbuck, Firman Houghton, Ruth Whitman, Stephen Sandy, and prose writer Clive T. Miller...
...Starbuck's first book, Bone Thoughts, was published earlier this year and is the current volume in the Yale Series of Younger Poets. His poetry has been characterized by Dudley Fitts as "an intense and shaking kind of poetry, an art whose dissonances and wry dartings reflect a man awake in the nightmare of our day." His poetry has appeared in the New Yorker, Harper's, Audience, Paris Review, Saturday Review, and other periodicals...