Word: poetics
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...working was a radio-play-poem, The Fall of the City, broadcast in 1937. A radio-studio innovation, it presented Fascism as a spook-in-armor, stalking in on and taking control of a nation paralyzed by inertia, fear and propaganda. Few listeners-in agreed on the poetic merits of what the rather wild air waves had been saying, but most did agree that if Fascism should come to the U. S. it would come as a man, not a spook, agreed also that in The Fall of the City Radio-Play-Poet MacLeish had made some good, if eerie...
Latest socio-poetic graft that Poet MacLeish has produced is Land of the Free, in which he top-works his poetry on to the art form of the news-picture magazine. In this book, 88 photographs of U. S. landscape and people (taken independently of Poet MacLeish, and mostly for the Resettlement Administration) are "illustrated" by a running verse commentary in which Poet MacLeish says his say about a sweet land whose liberty, for many of its inhabitants, went sour...
Four years ago a poetic gusher called Man with a Bull-Tongue Plow, which consisted of 703 sonnets written in eleven months, called attention to a new U. S. poet: a six-foot, 207-lb., 30-year-old Kentucky hillbilly named Jesse Stuart. In those poems, as in his book of stories that followed two years later (Head o' W-Hollow), Jesse Stuart wrote prolifically, ingenuously, sometimes amazingly well about his mountain kinsfolk, neighbors and scenery...
...vivid autobiography, published last week, proved that he could write even better on at least two other themes-his physical strength and his poetic talent. His muscle he traces to his pioneer ancestors, all over six feet, feudists, boozers, moonshiners, hard workers, preachers. Biggest and lustiest of these was Grandfather Mitch Stuart, who fought for the North because the Union recruiting station was nearer, who narrowly escaped hanging by his own men for killing a fellow soldier, fathered 19 children by two wives, died violently by ambush when he was past 80. As an old man, Grandpa Stuart scandalized...
Author Stuart admits he does not know where the poetic streak in his family comes from (his 21-year-old brother, James, and his 16-year-old sister write too). He can only record how many poems he wrote, not how he wrote them or where they came from. But they have been coming for a long while. As a kid he went coon hunting with a lantern and a volume of Burns, read poetry by lantern light until the dog's barking signaled a treed coon...