Word: yorks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Harvard's undefeated cross country team will be running without Tom Spengler Monday in New York, but it still has high hopes of winning the IC4A's for the first since...
...aesthetics, which his national prominence has made it impossible to ignore. Two years ago, when Bly won the National Book Award for his second volume. The Light Around the Body. he abandoned the speech which had been submitted for approval, and gave another, castigating the government, New York literati. and several other victims; then presented the check awarded him to a member of the Resistance. all before an audience of the most prestigious publishers and poets in America...
...Donald Hall converged on a world-which seemed to them intolerably diminished; they revived The Advocate, published their own poems, and decided to become writers. They all did. Hall sailed off to study at Oxford, most of the others ended up in graduate school, and Bly went to New York to live alone. "I got nowhere fast, but I was able to do a lot of reading and thinking that the poets who had stayed on in school were not able...
After nearly three years in New York, living alone ("I didn't even have enough money to take out a girl"), he moved back to his family's farm in Minnesota, and has been in the neighborhood of it ever since. His first book, Silence in the Snowy Fields, collected a group of poems as muffed as a snowstorm in midwinter. They were like quiet songs, spoken out of solitude, poems in which A Man Writes to a Part of Himself. Even then, a nervous aura of crisis crept into his work...
...last summer on a car trip to California, his father repeated his earlier warnings against picking up hitchhikers. "They can be dangerous, you know," he said. And last Sunday, after I had informed my mother that I had hitched the day before from Harvard to Bard College in New York, she warned against accepting rides from strangers. "They can be dangerous, you know." she said...