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...occasionally awesome. From a bullet-pierced soldier's helmet come "cordite oozings of Gallipoli." Giant crabs, "God's only toys," tear each other apart. Even a thistle is "a grasped fistful of splintered weapons." Hughes sees a grim beauty in all this. His ability to make the reader see it too has placed him, at 40, among the handful of essential poets that Britain has produced since...
...skull-bound argument iterates, and there is no resolving it. For the half-beguiled, half-annoyed, unyoung straight reader, Richard Brautigan's gentle, shaggy little books have in them much of what is both very nice and too easy about the kid culture: its music, its mobility, its sex, the milder varieties of its pharmaceutical voyaging. Brautigan, at 36 an honorary kid, floats through his books on pure talent. If he does not seem to work very hard at his writing, well, they repealed the Protestant ethic after all and insouciance is one of his major attractions...
...book owes a heavy debt to Editor Asher, who reorganized the chief's verbal and written memories. Yet starting with Red Fox's recollection of learning as a child "to make a fishhook from the rib of a field mouse," the reader will rarely be aware of any white man's intruding hand. "I am not sentimental," says Red Fox, "but memories haunt me as I review scenes from the days before I was old enough to understand that all Indian things would pass away...
...editorial and promotional budgets, hoping to gain in newsstand sales and subscription renewal rates. Neither hope was fulfilled. "The magazine as presently constituted cannot live only on favorable press notices and dinner party conversation," Cowles said. He also insisted that Harper's content be guided more by reader surveys-an idea Morris refused even to discuss and which the resigning editors found equally unpalatable. Cowles, pointing out that Harper's is, in effect, being kept afloat by the parent Minneapolis Star and Tribune Co., even hinted he might pull the plug in preference to "indefinitely" subsidizing the magazine...
...framework is missing. Anderson's reader will never know that Marx popularized the word alienation; that Freud supplied most of the vocabulary Anderson must use to discuss the "imperial self" in the first place. The last poet unaffected by an "imperial self" was a medieval troubadour, the last philosopher, Thomas Aquinas. Would Anderson blame Stendhal's The Red and the Black for the disintegration of "communal ties" in Europe...