Word: antoninus
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...beginning of his poetry reading at Harvard last week, Brother Antoninus paced about the stage of Emerson D, glowered at his audience, and remained silent for several minutes. The protracted silence created an acute and almost unbearable tension. Then he spoke: "I look at you. I don't know you. Everywhere you are the same...
What was the "seriousness of the situation"? During his reading, Brother Antoninus explained his function as a poet: When I was walking here, I looked at the gulls circling in the sky--they know each other, they band together. That's really the way it is with us. I am taking you into a spiral, but it's not going to be an elevation: we're going down--down into the depths of the heart. I want to find a cranny in you that I can crawl through. That is the function of the poet: to create an aperture...
...poet identified with the San Francisco Renaissance headed by Kenneth Rexroth, Robert Duncan, and Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Brother of Antoninus published poems for many years under the name William Everson until he became a lay brother in the Dominican Order eleven years ago. As all poetry should, Brother Antoninus' writings have had an organic development which reflects the parallel development of his personal life. While much of his earlier poetry did exhibit some orientation toward God, it largely dealt with his attempt to find meaning in life through sensuality. He explained the cause of a rather sudden shift in orientation: after...
...member of the Catholic Church, Brother Antoninus was provided with a dogmatic basis for his poetry. "The dogma has been helpful," he said, "in that it has provided me with subject matter and a frame of reference, and has made me concentrate my energies. But it has imposed a great inner tension that has been difficult to resolve: the polarity between spirit and flesh has been thrown into a different dimension by the religious context...
...loose, is presented as the Dictator of Rome. To compound the cinematic crime, Caesar, the empire builder, is portrayed by Actor Gavin, a rose-lipped, sloe-eyed young man who looks as though he never got to the first conjugation, let alone the Gallic Wars. And Antoninus, a Roman poet, is played by Actor Curtis with an accent which suggests that the ancient Tiber was a tributary of the Bronx River. To these blunders is added the customary quota of glaring goofs (a map of Italy that looks like nothing seen in Rome before the 19th century), slobbery sentiment...