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Poliotics
In our time the destiny of man presents
its meaning in political terms —
Thomas Mann

W.B. Yeats
(June 13th 1865 — January 28th 1939)

...Pablo Neruda, who organized a writers' conference in Madrid when the city was besieged by the Falangists in 1937, recollected in his memoirs that Yeats, by then too old to travel to the bomb-blasted city, nonetheless "rallied to the defence of the Spanish Republic".

I, Too

Langston Hughes
(February 1st 1902 — May 22nd 1967)

...Upon leaving for Africa, Hughes discarded all his books except for Leaves of Grass: "I had no intention of throwing that one away", he said.
Hughes' death was caused by prolonged heart and kidney trouble. He never married, nor had any children.

The Rain

Robert Creeley
(May 21st 1926 — )

Creeley taught at Black Mountain College in the 1950s and now teaches at Brown University. His art has no impulse to enclose itself in the literary solely, or to move apart from the common terms of the given world.

English poet Thomas Spratt died May 20th 1713

Thomas Wyatt,imprisoned in the Tower of London along with five other suspected lovers of Anne Boleyn, watched her execution on May 19th 1536. He was later released and rusticated.

From The Buráiyát of Omar Khayyám
of Naishapur

Edward Fitzgerald
(March 31st 1809 — June 14th 1883)

Edward Fitzgerald was introduced to Omar Khayyám's poetry by his friend Edward Cowell in May 19857, and set about translating 75 of the quatrains that summer. The first edition of his version of the Rubáiyaát was published in March 1859.

Why Brownlee left

Paul Muldoon
(June 20th 1951 — )

... His latest collection is Moy Sand and Gravel. Muldon moved to the United States in 1983 and is currently Howard Clark Professor of Humanities at Princeton University, where he lives with his wife and two children.

Song

Adrienne Rich
(May 16th 1929 — )

In her introduction to the anthology, Best American Poetry (1996), Rich writes that she wants "poems good enough to eat, to crunch between the teeth, to feel their juices bursting under the tongue, unmicrowavable poems".

Alexis Kagame, Rwandan poet and Roman Catholic Priest, born May 15th 1`912.

Thankyou Note

Dannie Abse
(September 22nd 1923 — )

Dannie Abse writes: "The years have proved that the best and most decisive thing I have ever done was to choose Joan Mercer (as she as known then) to be mh wife. so it's hardly surprising that ion the evening road I would write a thankyou note addressed to her. I do hope the poem is less soppy than the above confession."