Word: voided
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Brautigan, a self-confessed minor poet, exploits his limitations to the fullest. Another original, Poet Gary Snyder, has said that Brautigan's work consists of "flowers for the void." Lawn offers plenty of rosemary for remembrance and, if Brautigan harbors any bitterness for a world that now sells used trout streams by the foot, he certainly wears his rue with a difference...
...curtain opens on six squiggled screens all in a row, that begin to sway alternately back and forth, by some mysterious support just barely maintaining their balance. Magically the fantasy fence stands erect and splits apart like sliding doors unearthing a dancer in the expected void. Like a movie where superimposition pops a new figure in view out of nothingness, the stage gradually becomes blocked in with one, two, and sometimes six dancers. Even with their skill of wheel-like locomotion, Russia's Moisey dancers could not have oiled these with any more slipperiness or spontaneity...
...public firmness bordering on hostility to their government. For the benefit of the world at large, Chou turned on the chill. He reeled off China's basic positions: that its sovereignty over Taiwan must be recognized, that the U.S. treaty with the Nationalists is "illegal, null and void," that Peking alone must represent China in the United Nations, that the U.S. must withdraw not only from the "dirty war" in Viet Nam but "also from the whole of Indochina...
...while railing at the pasteboard void, Rosen also admits to having learned to play its games with a real sense of bravura. Gassed on the streets of Chicago during the '68 demonstrations, Rosen's mind flashes from childhood memories of cajoling his parent's friends with smiles and jokes and pleasant words to playing the martyr scenes for the sake of the familiar suburban mother-type behind the oversized wheel of the Camaro before which he stumbles in temporary confusion. "I am so accustomed to my mastery of mothers that this sudden and irritating turn of events unnerves...
...black, the poor, and the young now appeal? This book is basically addressed to that point . . ." Then a few lines later you said, "There is no reliable authority." Do you think there are any useful values that can be derived from the African experience and applied to this moral void...