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bunch of fuckin crooks. / They ain't just selling / little two-bit caps,
they making books."
One feels a little like an unwholesome sonofabitch to cast aspersions
on a fellow who is apt to make such "vital" connections, and yet I
cannot help being put off by unexamined attitudes that do not arise
from the usual contexts of a man's thoughts. No wonder so many young
people find in Snyder a prophetic voice, though I confess I have not
met the kids Professor Parkinson is certain exist. Snyder permits people
to congratulate themselves on making the right connections, on having
the appropriately pious or outraged response to brutality, while at the
same time encouraging withdrawal to the woods and an amused absorp–
tion in the exotic aspects of surface life. Snyder's commitments, while
very likely sincere, are grossly superficial, and his evocations of them at
best programmistic and facil e. His poetry can be appealing only to
those who know what to expect and are prepared to read the poetry in
such a way that it will support those vague and formless projects that
are their lives.
Though Paul Zimmer is still a very young man, it is only with dif–
ficulty that we can speak of him as one of our younger poets. His is
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NICOLA CHIAROMONTE -
ON MODERN TYRANNY (A critique of
Western Intellectuals)
Irving Howe - Nixon's Dream, A Black Reality
Gunter Grass -
Violence and Politics (two essays on Germany and
Czechoslovakia)
Henry Pachter - Teaching Negro History
Jervis Anderson - Styron and His Black Critics
Joseph Buttinger - Toward Peace at Paris?
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