Word: suis
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Suiċide in the Schools...
...poem is energy transferred from where the poet got it, by way of the poem to, and all the way over to, the reader.... Form is never more than an extension of content.... One perception must immediately and directly lead to a further...."). But he is wholly sui generis; his present work seems to be of infinite potential...
Rarely anthologized, sympathetic to many literary camps, but with a foot in none of them, John Berryman is as close to being sui generis as anyone but Blake, Trotsky and Christopher Smart. New York has adopted him only since the mid-fifties, for although his poems appeared n the Nation and the New Republic since the thirties, much of his earlier work and most of its critical acknowledgment were published in Chicago's Poetry. Today he is regarded by many as one who threatens the language and endangers the conventions it clings...
...cannot be considered a typical Vietnamese woman-.-or any woman. She is sui generis. Generally feminine and able, the majority of Vietnamese women have neither the dictatorial temperament nor the vicious habits of speech that are characteristic...
...what Patagonian means in the Miller context, the only source seems to be Poet Karl Shapiro, who introduces this U.S. edition in the characteristic style of the muddled and ecstatic cultist: "What is a Patagonian? I don't know, but it is certainly something rare and sui generis. We can call Miller the greatest living Patagonian...