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MICHA
Certain American
writers become
personalities.
Other writers
create and live
in obscurity. In
England, almost
any writer who
has established
himself will have
some small
dedicated
showing.
To Po
Michael Hamburger agrees with /
0 T. S. Eliot--writing poetry is a a
mug's game.
The British poet, spending the a
fall as a visiting professor at USC, ii
explained that a mug's game is one ii
which is foolish or unprofitable.
That's the title he's given his t
autobiography, which will be r
published next month in London. h
Hamburger has been a poet since F
his teens. His first published poem
was at 17, before serving in the I
British -Army, and his first book (
appeared when he was 19. Since (
1950 he has had eight books of v
original poetry published, the most v
recent, "Ownerless Earth: New t
and Selected* Poetry," released I
this year. He will give a public
reading of his poetry Dec. 3 at 8
p.m. in the College of Business
Spainish I
* To Fill Co
When junior Spanish major I
Kathy O'Quinn of Florence I
couldn't find a library book with
the needed information for her I
Contemporary University
Independent Study project, she
* decided to write her own.
Now the book has been accepted
for publication.
After searching for a
bibliography of female Spanish
authors to prepare a survey,
O'Quinn realized there was none.
She checked with the Women's
History Library. in Berkeley,
Calif., where they said no such
work had been attempted. She
* then b)egan to compile her own
bhiira:hi shea couald sest upna
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et,WViritii
dministration building and od(
uditorium. French
Still, Hamburger would advise prison,
fy aspiring creative writer, half program
i-jest, half seriously, "not to do hoped t
mates t
"Don't write because you expect when re
make a living. Do it because you A teai
must and don't expect rewards," Universi
e said. "Writing is a com- years i
ulsion...a lonely occupation." where t
After release from the Army, ducive I
lamburger returned to studies at had a st
xford, majoring in French and Event
erman. The years that followed a full-til
,ere filled with two careers- desire f,
riting poetry and whatever would Iranslat
ing in money to support him and back to
s family. write fo
"This
For four years he lived as a free- Englant
nce writer, doing articles on cudg
utry, book reviews, broadcasts coul g
dajor Writes
liege Library
roposal and survey for her CU 80-year
roject. attendir
Ultimately she gathered 1,600 76 year
ames of female Spanish writers include<
rom 19 Spanish-American in one I
~ountries with various She
iographical information about questioi
ach one in addition to titles of views t
:eir works. project
The work, accepted for sociohi
~ublication by the Espina del Norte Mexica:
ublications of San Francisco, "All c
alif., will be out in the spring USC shi
~nder the title "A Bibliography of "The C
panish-Americanl Authors." project
O'Quinn encountered a cross- bibliogi
~ctioni of Mexican women from an lead to
ll tem&.le rock group, ages 12-21, Monter
ho entertnained in local clubs to an suadent
IURGER
ag Is 'ML
i f t
I jobs. One, teaching Another job
to convicts in a London for a Britisl
he termed a "hopeless An invital
." Prison authorities America to
his would encourage in- many door!
o immigrate to Canada was invited
leased. for a seme:
thing position at London College and
ty was followed by nine from a mc
it Reading University, State Univ(
he country life was con- Buffalo an(
:o work, and Hamburger Center for
udy where he could write. Wesleyan
ually the strain of carrying University
ne teaching load and the University
)r more time to write and Diego.
e poetry led Hamburger "Such op1
London to try again to do not exi:
r a f.ull-time career. Hamburger
is simply not possible in visiting pre
I," he said. "ESven if a poet adjust his ci
ve a reading a week, the for creativ
uld not keep him up. teaching on
Book
Needs
old woman who had been
ig bullfights in the area for
s. One group surveyed
1 15 people who all resided
iome.
asked the women 32
is ranging from polictcal
ideas on abortion. The
is an attempt to outline the
storical aspect of the KATI
ri feminist movement.
f these programs offered at ..o
uld be utilized," she said.
ontemporary University and learn
enabled me to prepare the temporary
-aphy which eventually will independe
a published work. The language
ey Tec program gives the have comi
an opportunity to travel help of the
Hamk
ac
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wrr
seri
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be
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exp
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or career is essential in the
i poet." Foreig
:ion in 1965 to come to and o
give readings opened Literat
for Hamburger. He "Nor
as a visiting professor place,
;ter at Mount Holyoke justing
since then, has spent that I
nth to a semester at Columi
sity of New York in really
I Stony Brook, at the he saic
the Humanities of "Cer
University, the becom4
of Connecticut and the sought
of California in San and tr
- create
prtunities for a writer Englau1
tin England," said has esi
explaining that a some a
fessor in America can He wor
.rse load to allow time neglect
ty. At USC, he is he said
egraduate-level course Ha m
promol
publish~
off pc
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kpublished. "Cont
origin
Although the Con- called
University project is forem
t of the foreign man <
rogram, I could not best <
leted one without the literal
urger would
vise any
-ing creative
ter, half in
,st, half
>usly, not to
. Don't write
cause you
st, and don't
ect rewards.
ime'
German Division of the
n Language Department
ne in the Comparative
ure Department.
mally when I come to a new
I am so absorbed in ad
to the new environment
get little writing done.
)ia has been different. I've
gotten quite a bit written,"
1.
tain American writers
'personalities.' They are
after and courted by society
e press. Other writers
and live in obscurity. In
d, almost any writer who
ablished himself will have
mall dedicated following.
ild not suffer the degree of
that he would in America,"
burger explained that
ion is important in selling
~eative work and blamed
ers for traditionally writing
etry books as losses.
,h recognized in England
ternationally as a poet,
rger considers his books
ful if each sells 2,000 copies.
er work published by
urger include numerous
of translations, principally
man poets. His versions of
sionary and religious poet,
lin, are recognized as the
ive translation.
lingual anthology of "East
mn Poetry" was published
ear. The reviewer for
raries," his first book of
al essays, re-issued in 1970,
Hamburger, "one of the
ost commentators on Ger
!ulture" and the book, "the
assays to date on German
ure before and after Nietz