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...inundated with 3,000 poems a month. Nearly 400 books of poetry are published in the U.S. each year. Antaeus Editor (and poet) Daniel Halpern optimistically calls this a "blossoming of talent," but there is a darker side to the phenomenon. Poet Louis Simpson voices a common refrain when he complains that "there are few readers of poetry of any kind." Statistics bear him out. Poetry is a prestigious loss-leader on publishers' lists. The book of verse that sells more than 2,000 copies is a bona fide success...
...Massage on the same site last month. Baldwin, an ex-boxer, hotly denies any sexual services at Monica's. Word around town is that he is almost correct: voyeurism is the main attraction, with a little masturbatory help here and there. Mayor Kew offers the familiar refrain: "Much to our dismay, there was nothing we could do; just make sure they abide by the codes...
...prison on time" is the latest refrain in California's twelve penal institutions. Since last October, when the California state legislature passed a statute restoring numerous civil rights to felons, including the right to marry, the wedding bells have been ringing loudly. In the last quarter of 1975, some 177 prisoners, or about 1% of state inmates, tied the knot. Slammer marriage ceremonies, usually per formed by prison chaplains or county officials, are maintaining roughly this same pace in the early months of 1976. Weddings are open to all prisoners, even the "lifers...
...black braids which "flew out like whips." Yet they are frightened of their own desires, and tend to suppress them. As a result, they remain unfulfilled or their bodies are reshaped by their lovers' ravishment, while "the soul splits apart, and tastes like salt." The women of her verse refrain from jeopardizing others only to be, Sagan hints, themselves destroyed...
...mourn his passing we recall a refrain from "Freiheit", the Spanish Civil War song he immortalized...