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Columbic m I is laugh By Henry Green right? Doziei seem to hav Sunrise: Poetry lor Today by Donald P. what he d0 Dozier, jr.; $1.50 statement ( childhood anc responsibility Sunrise: Poetry for Today trite as to be i miroorts to bp a bnok nf nnptrv If poetry is an art form, it is not. It is If a good po merely a collection of words which the reader cai the author, Donald P. Dozier Jr., each time b< has seen fit to lump together into following poe what he imagines are striking and in trouble: beautiful phrases (separated by commas), which in turn convey inecrys supposedly striking and beautiful ?hn?Vf images. These phrases are the P6 es kind which are usually found Brassy?s within the pages of high school The reader literary yearbooks, penned by asking "So starry-eyed senior pom-pom girls might conjui who will later major in business in mental image college. Here is one particularly no significane charming litle gem, entitled Thi "Childhood's End": v;utio:iiuii rev We've travelled the road a temptati< to childhood's end, to ^ we've spent those years so f/ w*}? [anc3 few.It's time to start that of PP1 all over again, Pa8e without and begin a life anew. anJ[. calling the pre This poem is probably the worst Not only do< selection in a book that was a down words waste of the time it took to write it. them down so as well as a waste of the short time far between, it takes to read it ? the entire book that poetry is only twelve pages long. If one concentrated reads "Childhood's End" aloud, the soul of wit he'll notice that it has the sing-song where to d quality of a Mother Goose rhyme, example of th and listening to sing-song poetry exercise in pr for a while tends to get on the , nerves. r 1,1U don't Obviously Dozier tries to say a pleas great deal in a few words. That's Find what poetry is supposed to be, a don'l highly concentrated form of prose, pleas need a nice Apamn HAMPTON PARK offers ; 1-2-3 bedroom apart I convenient to U.S. 4427 Blossom Coll I Thank You /g^ Carolina For Your Sup f/ff Friday: Boogie at Daddy's W/ all nite, midnight happ^ |jf Sat. Nite: Daddy's Tequilh II Wed.. Mar. 7: Ev^nsona Ione of Columbia's hottest d< Play Pool & Backgammon Upstair SEE SPORTS EVENTS ON OUR < 1824 Edmund Dr. Airport Hie :xn's poetry able trash r, however, does not "The Stream" and the precedi e much to say, and beauty must have taken Dozier s have to say ? a of five minutes to write. >n the brevity of And Dozier is not above usi 1 the beginnings of the cliches in his verse along with ' of adulthood ? is so laughably pompous and hi] lot worth saying. sounding nothings: "the road life is long and wide" is bet f ... suited to be found inside a forti em .s one from which cooki This from i draw fresh meaning utfed _ wh , , ; reads it, then the . ? m. "The Stream," is Sunrjse simp,y cannot be tak seriously. One has the feeling tl Lai, leafy, water the author published it just so tl r moss-covered he could tell everybody at 1 ayingonthe tamily reunion that he is andy, floor publishing poet. is left hanging, left | what?" The poem f f 1 / re up a pleasant IV , but that's all. It has * e in and of itself. I j and ^?thers in the ^ ^ ^ lent? : li ivi irir^i ic 9 IUAUI IVUJ ments I C. 782-6626 Fol inort , Specials y m? 1 hour. vft i a Party \| Hi HI ! ance bands I ? at Daddy's SteCep 5IANT TV jhway(21 5) jj ^-8un: POETRY F ing ^ ^ _ = mmm his 1 DONALD P. 9 Thomas' *Fi by mixed-up By Janet Firelox by Craig Thom< A reader skims the first few page |||||? "best seller" is really a bore. Ho[ glgg continues to read ? the action becorr jH! Unfortunately, Firefox by Craig ill! pattern. 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