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THE MICHIGAN DAILY
Friday, April 17, 1970
Page Two THE MICHIGAN DAILY Friday, April 17, 1970
-poetry and prose
Emotic
By BETSY SMITH
The sins and virtues of the
current Generation stem largely
from voice and the problems
associated with it. When the
magazine is most successful it
displays a stylistic mastery, a
coherent voice that has some-
thing to say, as in Mitchell
Halberstadt's "Across the Great +
Divide."
Although the story is flaw-
ed by over-writing, a too self- ;
c o n s c i o u sness preoccupation
with the media's vision of trips ,
out West' (Easy Rider and the ;
like) and a false bravado ren-
dered absurd by the flight home
to refuge, the writing is care-
ful and at the same time ex-
pressive. Everywhere the per-
sona is human and convincing,
fearful and at the same time
willing to share a flash of joy:
The bridge was swinging
madly with my friends; they
were skinny and I weighed
200 pounds. I trembled across
the first half of the bridge,
stopped for a second to look
at the rapids below me, and
skipped across the rest of the
bridge. After I made it, I
realized that it was the first
time I had ever "enjoyed"
using my body; the wind
over the river I'd crossed had
ripped away the rancid stench
of ten years of hated locker-
room and phys ed classes,
Blues Festival
.. . A letter
To the Editor:
We are writing this letter
in regards to an article by Bert
Stratton in the April 14 edition
of the Daily. We cannot in good
faith condemn Mr. Stratton's
critique of the Blues Preview
concert, although some of the
opinions expressed in his re-
view we feel deserve comment.
Mr. Stratton's remarks c o n-
cerning John Jackson were not
only of a derogatory nature but
also had a slightly biased tinge
to them. It is quite possible Mr.
Stratton did all this uninten-
tionally but it must be pointed
out that these opinions run com-
pletely counter to the aims of
the Ann Arbor Blues Festival
and the personal beliefs of the
central committee.
-The nine members of the
Ann Arbor Blues Festival.
central Committee
n
versus style
ten years of barking, crew-
cut, and slightly mongoloid
and brutally military gym
teachers and ten years of be-
ing shoved in the outfield
when the class played ball
(and left there when the sides
retired).
Halberstadt excells at the long
digressive sentence, yet h i s
voice is never windy or mere-
ly rhetorical. With editing his
story would be superb.
The photographs by L yn n
Corcoran are complex studies,
and there is one drawing by
Suzy Oxford in which the
jumble of hands and guitar are
intriguing. David Zelter's cover
idea is also striking; but the
art in general is not superior.
It shares with the poetry in this
issue a kind of tentativeness, a
wish for sophistication that,
given the content, cannot be
fulfilled.
The poetry covers a broad
range of styles, yet as one reads
it the doubt arises as to whe-
ther the poet ever read any
poems in the style he is imi-
tating. Instead of the poems
springing from a synthesis of
the poet's vision and his de-
veloped technique, they are
very external - Fargo Berman
merely claiming a surreal en-
vironment but not providing one,
William Sandifer sketching but
not commenting on issues, Nor-
man Hindley swallowed up in a
sea of ill-chosen images from
which he emerges, gasping and
bruised:
My presence regarded like the
stained rump of a mule...
Jonathan Sterling's "Summer
Work Poems" are a welcome
exception to the merely elabor-
ate or merely vulgar poems in
this issue. His spare "Endicott"
is Frostian in its simple rural
statement:
two men an issue
a cutting of cord
Kathy Edelman's "In Celebra-
tion, Percy Bysshe Shelley" is
also successful in the evoca-
tion of a well-known Romantic
funeral, "He thought he saw
the perfect brain/ Burst with-
in the heated skull . . . " but
this example, as with her other
contributions in the issue, is
flawed by her over-zealous at-
tempt to create archetypal
tragedy from the use of the
symbol and stylized language
alone.
Errors of taste are less to
be forgiven than errors of style
or lapses in technique. Peter
Griffith's Weltyesque bathroom
scenario is merely prurient and
Brian Bristoff's brutishness un-
palatable, especially when he
passes it off as purity. M a r y
Martha Lucas achieves by un-
derstatement in "Chinook"
what Byrne, Janacek (A Czech
poet whom we are grateful to
be able to read) and Fields can-
not convince us of even with
the help of the Bible and
Shakespeare. Nadine ,Major's
shattered fragments have mo-
ments, however, of delicacy.
the other prose pieces, al-
though each a beginning of a
style, are too humorless and
melodramatic to move the read-
er's sensibility. These problems
of pretentiousness and s e 1 f-
consciousness in writing are in-
structive: this week three liter-
ary magazines are vying for at-
tention on campus, each of
which has a definite personality.
The writers in Anon, having
established their seriousness,
have ;moved beyond literary
models toward an honest artis-
tic commitment. The young
writers in Residential College's
Chrysallis are shyly striving for
voices; every success is touch-
ing both in terms of itself and
the nascent, newly-emerging
publication.
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