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might we not hear, even then,
the bear call
from his hillside-a call, like ours, needing
to
be answered-and the dam-bear
call back across the darkness
of the valley of not-knowing
the only word tongues shape without intercession,
yes...yes...
?
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Yes. Unable
to
"Drink and be whole again, beyond confusion,"
Kinnell's willed choice and his one necessit.y are to explore the
confusion of a life beyond salvation, a death beyond redemption. The
result is often compelling reading. Now that he has wandered among
the darkest and worst his life holds, it should be exciting, given the
qualilY of his best work, to see how he joins his nightmare vision with
the other half of his life.
ALAN HELMS
LAW AND DISORDER
SURVEILLER ET PUNIR: NAISSANCE DE LA PRISON.
By
Michel
Foucault. Editions Gallimard.
It
may not be accidental that the trial of Patricia Hearst, an
"unemployed urban guerilla," as she characterized herself, oversha–
dowed such consequential events as the Shorr investigation or the
Lebanese civil war. For Michel Foucault, this spectacle about mental
illness and crime wou ld be a recent manifestation of our customary
fascination with deviance.
In
fact all his works about the mad, the sick,
the criminal or the homosexual, show how the very presence of
deviants always has helped to maintain the power of the elite-along
with social solidarity. Thus Ms. Hearst's entourage of flamboyant
lawyers and psychiatrists who were to prove that she had been "brain–
washed" or "coercively persuaded," and the jury's final verdict, not
only allowed for the customary generalizations and cliches about crime
