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apart th e old labor-liberal coa liti o n th at produced the New Deal and
on the path of producing what became the disastrous N ew Politics and
the McGovernization of the Democratic Party. He took up their
themes, responded to w hat o utraged them - especially Vietnam - while
always trying to steer a centrist course and move the nation towards
reconciliation and unity. When the Movement became too radical, he
could and did break abrup tl y with it, even if it meant gaining the ani–
mosity of the very young men and women he worked hard to recruit.
Allard Lowenstein was a man of principle and a born leader. He won
the respect of both friends and adversaries. Students of American politics
owe William C hafe a great debt for uncovering the story of his tortured
and compli cated life and for telling it so we ll.
RONALD RADOSH
The Other Europe
CHILD OF EUROPE: A NEW ANTHOLOGY OF EAST EUROPEAN
POETRY. Edited by Michael March.
Penguin Books.
$9.95.
CLAY AND STAR: CONTEMPORARY BULGARIAN POETS.
Translated and edited by Lisa Sapinkopf and Georgi Belev. Introduction
by Charles A. Moser.
Milkweed Editions.
$15 .00.
CZECH AND SLOVAK WRITING IN TRANSLATION. Edited by Mila
Saskova-Pierce, Hana Arie-Gaifman, et. al.
Prain·e Schooner,
Winter
1992 .
$6.45.
THE HORSE HAS SIX LEGS: AN ANTHOLOGY OF SERBIAN
POETRY. Edited and translated by Charles Simic.
GraywolfPress.
$12.00.
SELECTED POEMS OF SANDOR CSOORI. By Sandor Csoori.
Translated by Len Roberts.
Copper Canyon Press.
$11.00.
The Cold War is supposedly over. T he bad news is that Europe is
once again rife with racism and virulent nationalism; the good news is
that East European poetry is ali ve and well. These five titles reassert val–
ues both topical and timeless.
Child oj Europe
looks like a tiny offering,
but it is a wealth
in nuce,
featuring new poetry from eleven countri es,
from Hungary to the Baltics, not neglecting the former Soviet Union,
by thirty-five poets born between 1940 and 1963. First published in 1990,
the volume maintains a view of old political borders intact. Among the
opening poems is Gyorgy Petri's stunning political allegory "Electra," in
which we hear hidden self-irony: "Because of disgust, because it all sticks
in my craw,! revenge has become my dream and my daily bread" - for
