Word: fragmentize
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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There is a fragment of Robert Bly's Garrison Prize winning poem "The Indian Trail" printed under the title "Famine." It is the most finished piece in the current issue, and it is unfortunate that only a portion of the whole poem could appear. Mr. Bly's images and choice of words are always clear and appropriate; probably because he has chosen to write about something definite--a Sioux Massacre of 1862. Lyon Phelps' poem "Deutschland, Deutschland," which won honorable mention in the Garrison contest, strongly echoes Eliot in rhythm, symbols, and the use of the device of repeating fragments...
Last week the Marqués de Lozoya, Madrid's art director, asked Jesús to name his price for the fragment. "Nothing," was the answer. "It brought me adventure. To discover a Velasquez and call it one's own, even for a short time, is enough." Nonetheless, Lozoya pressed a 20,000-peseta ($1,800) reward on Jesús, proposed him for a government decoration. But Jesús was already off to the junk shops again. "If anyone finds more pieces," he declared, "I am the man who should. I have that Velasquez feeling...