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...Unscrew the locks from the doors!" Walt Whitman cried out to Americans a century ago. "Unscrew the doors themselves from the jambs!" The dirty...
...Conchos lays money on the somewhat odd proposition that the West was won by losers. Its motley heroes are an incompetent Army officer (Stuart Whitman), his much-abused Negro aide (Cleveland Fullback Jim Brown), a half-breed cutthroat (Tony Franciosa), and a grizzled lay-about (Richard Boone) who loves red-eye as passionately as he loathes redskins...
...Stuart Davis might be viewed as good examples of the what - I-did-last-summer-when-I-was-in-Paris genre. But, althouph he over-writes, Davis succeeds where others in this issue fail; in "City of Statuary" he links together several strains of imagery. So too Ruth Whitman's "I Laugh in Russian" knits at least three strands of metaphor in a compact but highly readable form...
...fact, it is the few pieces like Miss Whitman's which make the Advocate easily worth a quarter. But unless more writers resist the seductions of flaccid free verse and tediously flat prose the Advocate will only be a decent buy, not a bargain...
Most of these poems are restrained when compared with Walt Whitman's effusive When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd. Nor are they elegiac in the usual sense. In poetry as elsewhere, the sea of faith has receded, and poets no longer have recourse to the traditional symbols of comfort and deliverance. The poems are for the most part stoical, terse, plainspoken. But all of them bespeak a grief as great as any poetry of the past...