THE MICHIGAN DAILY Saturday,.April 1$, 1970 THE MICHIGAN DAILY Saturday,~ApriI 18, 1970 poetry and prose ?hrysallis': Energizing a beautiful thing DO IT! YES-Sell ,your books at Student Book Service "Make selling a less painful experience." "Do it"-- Now at SBS By KEN FIFER mething beautiful is hap- 1g in East Quad - Chrys- the literary magazine of Residential College. The 'y and prose of more than. Y student writers has been ered, and one senses that selections have been made some care. Not everything is of the first quality, but little of it is dull. As the suggests, the Chrysallis ibutors often must rely on uniformed ' energy and sty to compensate for im- ct craft, but as the maga- seems very ready to accept in these terms, so too it 'ves our acceptance and support. And this, of course, of course, of course, is for our own sake. It is something' beautiful, this gift we have been given. The majority of the writers seem especially concerned with problems of self-location, with finding a place from which to speak. Less expectable, and more encouraging, some are also look- ing for a place from which to listen. Jim Guthrie's long poem, "Voyages 1-4," provides an ef- fective entry into four different landscapes, though he realizes no sure resolution can be accom- plished: and I find that since I am unknown at my ,point of departing I am unsure of all my arrivals. Alan Wanttaja examines his own "Home," and exhibits a generosity and affection toward his younger brother in "The Junior Marines" that shapes no final judgement, but voices a human response: I can't believe that he will Begin brushing his hair After all these years. He lives too quietly For shouts and commands. Less finished but still very readable work has been provided by Jon Adelson, in "On the Point of Turning Solid," a good but uneven piece; Joanne Slat- n effort at art in a yearbook -off, "You Didn't Hold My Hand," and Malcolm Hein, a talented but erratic poet, in "Savagery." Gary Huggins comes close in several of his poems to estab- lishing an interesting and com- plexly personal persona. Alan Kistler's poem "James Kwag- shung Wong," is well-handled and funny. The experimental work of Daniel Carr, Riki For- man, and Chas Murphy pro- vide futher excitement, though in need of more thought and more rewriting. Chris Morang, Daniel Rattner, Ellen Frankel, deserve longer comment than I can give them here. Michael Koenigsknecht's story with its highly stylized perspective seemed the best of the prose, though that too needs much work. The art-work, by David Lap- eza and Chas Murphy, and the photography, by Rick Gans, Shelley Banks, and David Beall; help make Chrysallis beautiful to look at. The quality of David Lapeza's drawings seem espe- cially deserving of praise - the talent they display is consistent and considerable. Chrysallis, if I can judge fair- ly, will attract less attention, and less of an audience, than it deserves. Almost certainly most of us will pass it by, thinking ourselves too busy, too put upon. Later, casually, we will complain about the university's insensitiv- ity, its dehumanization. 'ii 'V SUB-LET SERVICE WE RENT YOUR PLACE FOR YOU .., By LAURIE HARRIS 3inding it into two paper' ked volumes and inserting it o a colorful yellow holder ds an air of artistry to this ,r's Michiganensian. A n d istry is what the edition is all )ut. 'he entire book is photo- phs with a few typical year- ik phrases, but each phrase iley attempts to 'have mean- . For instance, one 'of the er statements: "Motivating ganizing Forwarding Leaping ierging Restoring4" balanced inst quotes from that campus orite, Herman Hesse. 3ut it is not words, that make Michiganensian a relative- beautiful piece of work, for entially that it what it is, the photographs. They azingly enough cover every ect of the past year with a .sitivity to what has really n happening. And in many es, as with ROTC and the, uth U., incident, photograhic I printed statements h a v e ned an editorial meaning. It is not merely the elimina- tion of pages of the Greek sys- tem that improve this book; it is the addition of what actually comprises college life: movies and records, in addition to the standard concerts, plays, and football games. One particularly interesting sports layout shows three pic- tures, two of. which have had a certain amount of grey drop- ped from them. It is, t h e i r juxtaposition on the pages and the technique itself, which creates an intriguing pattern. But sports pictures tend to be repetitive year after year. Or the beginning of 'Volume II' which displays a series of beautiful photographs, meant to be just that. A few of them depict a feeling about college life; carefree i spring days or bicycles, left to shiver, covered by wet snow. But light diffusing through a tree or icicles tells little about the University com- munity. What it is, is art and the Michiganensian should be proud of an attempt of this type. It takes bravery to do what every college and high school yearbook wants to do; to talk about a year in pictures and drop all the meaningless jabber. And this book does pre- sent the year -- from the mid- dle of last summer to the pages and pages of senior pictures; but of course, they too, are part of the University. The last step of nerve that the book must take is to drop those Teams of seniors. In general, however, the all- encompassing' attempts at ban- ner headlines are kept at a minimum with the emphasis relying on photographs to tell the story, and this year's pic- tures, though sometimes ham- pered by boring sequences and a very poor printing job, try to do just that. A drawing by David Lapeza COME ON IN AND REGISTER Chrysallis, in second issue, ha onstrated its ow improvement a would hope the would hope we place for such this, only its s already dem- n capacities for nd growth. I same for us. all can find a magazine. 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