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...remember that poetry should be at least as well-written as prose. And Marc Leib's review of a posthumous collection of Sylvia Plath's play and poems has some points to make about what's wrong with the tendencies of contemporary poetry-writers. He complains about the endless, pointless description that bad writers insist on producing and after clearing Plath of the usually valid suspicions brought to confessional poetry, Leib makes a hopeful statement about the pointlessness of making apologies for poetry when "the art awaits." But he obviously isn't too happy about what poets are writing...
...help" cause. As for the first, what they know about is how to use drugs all the time, a subject few would be that interested in. As for the latter, I too watched the war against drugs for quite a while before I realized that it was as pointless as the war against the Vietnamese...
Maybe Visconti is afraid that complexity of character-he uses all his actors as bits of movable scenery-or dramatically meaningful sequences would distract attention from his endless, pointless photography of galloping horses, gliding boats, and light-footed lads. Or maybe the movie is a huge metaphorical joke: Ludwig, after all, built empty, rambling castles where no one ever lived. This movie is constructed along a similar plan. There was, though, a certain magnificence in Ludwig's madness. Visconti's movie is merely maddening...
This history has three lessons of equal importance for American leftists. The first is that moral strategies must be discussed in their political contexts. Pacifism is necessary when violence means pointless death; resistance is necessary when passivity means extinction...
...immoral war." On the contrary, Nixon could serve the country well by allowing those who refused to participate in the war to return. It does make us ill to hear a warmonger deride any force for peace while the American people and their allies bear their huge and pointless sacrifice...