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...growing difficulties of day-today living in the U.S.-urban congestion, pollution, racial unrest, constant apprehension over violence and crime. Actor Steve McQueen plans to move with his wife and two children to Switzerland next year. Says his wife Neile, who was a friend of the murdered Sharon Tate: "I sleep with a gun under my pillow because I don't trust anybody. We have an electric alarm at the gate and house alarm system, and it's still not enough. This is no way to live...
What Negro and the other firemen soon discovered was the most gruesome mass murder in the U.S. since the Tate slayings. In the lagoon-shaped swimming pool in front of the $250,000 house were the bodies of Victor Ohta, 46. his wife Virginia, 43, their sons, Derrick, 12, and Taggart, 11, and the doctor's secretary, Dorothy Cadwallader, 38. Ohta, one of California's most prominent eye surgeons, had been shot twice in the back and once under the arm. The others had been shot in the head, and all were bound with their hands in front...
Bill Knott has been reading on college campuses for years, but until recently few people here had heard of him or his friend and fellow conspirator James Tate, who was the Yale Younger Poet in 1968, and whose second major collection, The Oblivion Ha-Ha, appeared last spring. If you were at Harvard and were interested in poetry, you knew about Robert Lowell and Richard Wilbur. But no one seemed to realize that anything new had happened since. After all, Lowell was still writing, wasn...
...Knott and Tate are working together, and no one knows what will happen. These poets have learned to make their own rules. They don't really care about anybody's sense of convention or propriety. Their poems are as innovative and exciting as any being written today, and we are damn lucky to have them. We're even luckier to be able to hear them...
Knott and Tate are not afraid to become engaged, or to withdraw, depending on how they feel. Tate's poems vary from the short, sly lyrics of The Lost Pilot to a newly wild and surrealist abandon in The Oblivion Ha-Ha, a book inhabited by immense animals and dreams within dreams. His terse, sensual allegories make deadly insinuations about our habits and fears...