Everyone/He Was One of Us

...The climate of the self computers, credit cards, money are bad...

...They give the wells and must deal with credit cards, A.R...

...Lyrics are, by nature little fragthis book as an appendix...

...however brilliantly executed, its slick ("Pacem in Terris") in Warwick, New The prefatory observations by the text and appealing realism can restrict rather York, and his religious response to the writer, Hans Bouma, suggest the than release the imagination, or substipersonality of John XXIII...

...Edward Proffitt I have now touched on the main points Franck's Buddhist-Christian romanti- I wish to discuss...

...It is look a bit like actors on a set, and that sort awakening of a religious attitude towards much more people around him that you'll of vision is not quite what the Gospels are life...

...For a play evoking example- this seemingly inevitable conjunction has a religious attitude I much prefer the orig- fair this morning, much caused a problem: How to write the long inal which, fortunately, is included in warmer, over fifty, but poem...

...7) religious attitude will usher us into our A.R...

...Sparse prose, through, the weather reports build to out of the amalgamation of short lyrics 28 September 1979: 53 7...

...Indeed, there's almost not a who sings in the shower or the rain unbe...

...Franck has unifying theme: "This book can be tute sentiment for religious vision...

...The New Tesof the horrors of the 20th century, and out humanity...

...In attractive and technically excellent illustmedieval Everyman for the first time, to fact, the hands and faces which tell this rations of some Biblical characters who his discovery of Buddhism-and a com- story of Jesus of Nazareth-in its quite responded to the presence of Jesus...

...obscures his vision...

...Ammons and of a cultural climate-the midhumanity (EveryOne reborn), then we Norton, $7.95, 105 pp...

...Unfortunately this kind of religion doesn't help those of us who don't have THE SNOW POEMS something like symbol...

...About my Son/ least, we have probably a major poet- (has been the self, and our poetic medium Who is my Son/ but he Who dares to see Ammons looms ever larger on the poetic has been the lyric...

...scribes his "trans-religious" search for It is hard to fault these Biblical illustra- He Was One of Us, however, is not understanding and peace, from his ex- tions unless one is looking for something religious art...

...every little lyric piece must to the dilemma, perforce a lyric solution table book, He Was One of Us, -The Life be taken with every other...

...give intimations of the temperature of a presumably a holier tense...

...Yet, for the ambitious poet, ultimately deceiving...

...But an excessive romanticism get to see...

...Commonweal: 536 ing of Everyman in the twentieth century so elliptical that it is occasionally enig- characterize Jesus in his humanity and his autobiographical allusions touch matic alludes to the particular Gospel through their genuinely human reactions ground, as his play does not...

...And when the (as opposed to a narrative solution, say): of Jesus of Nazareth, by Rien Poortvliet, whole of this long volume is read all of the poems just enumerated emerge the illustrator of Gnomes...

...It is, in fact, quite pretentious and page without its weather report: a random derstands...

...If a rebirth of a TIE SELECTED POEMS man "fifty in the mid-seventies" (p...

...It is quite simply a series of perience as a child in Holland seeing the the book does not pretend to offer...

...to all that Jesus does...

...Neverthemeant, to where a few snowflakes flew less, the whole period has witnessed a Nor yet for their being that I them and number of long poems, from The Prelude have lent...

...For the lyric is the Me . . . ?) his play is scarcely the landscape- musing incessantly about mode of self, or its expression, as anyone Buddhist-Christian credo he claims it to the weather...

...need to know what a religious attitude is...

...He ing, even if a simple view of the imag- insight and like most illustrative art, discusses his building of a sanctuary ined historical Jesus is not to one's taste...

...Music, cats, bread, cheese, stars, and well water are good...

...The parable tale in Eastern tradition called literal sense-are exceptionally appeal- scenes offer no particularly new religious "The Man and His Four Wives...

...But they also guished from something called NOW...

...He de- passage which inspired each illustration...

...But this does not mean that the tament illustrated, however, will always of his experience he pleads for a re- man Jesus is pictured on every page...

...They thank cloudy and rainy in the afternoon mented things, the spontaneous expresme not," says God, in that enduring text, with a falling off of temperature sion of spots of time and not the product "for the pleasure that I to them down of sustained intellectual effort...

...Ordinary folk who uniquely about...

...vividly a sense of place...

...And given the rather of- WE HAVE here Stevens's Major Man The Snow Poems...

...Almost nothing in this volume is forth...

...Ammons feel of the place, yes, and thereby render and who live in linear time, as distin- Norton, $12.50, 292 pp...

...At down to the present, our theme of themes chattering about Me...

...so today was mostly dark and low- down to The Cantos, The Four Quartets, I proffered the people great mul- ering Paterson, "Notes Toward a Supreme titude of mercy, and blustery but nice Fiction," Olson's Maximus, Zukofsky's And few there be asketh it heartily...

...seventies...

...Absolutely, in con- A, Berryman's Dream Songs, and so text...

...Many lived through and been touched by many looked upon as an act of homage to Jesus' people will like this book...

...So our poets have found a solution Doubleday offers us another coffee- abstractable...

...First, the structure of cism won't do...

...From Wordsworth on fensive lines attributed to God ("Stop encounting Major Weather...

...But is this poetry...