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Show 8E The Salt L&jp Tribune, Sunday, November 2, 1963 Samuel Beckett, Like No Other Dramatist Deserves Nobel Prise When Are Poems Bom? By Dan Sullivan Los Angeles Times Writer The selection of Samuel Beckett for the 1969 Nobel Prize in literature last week was so apt that it is hard to Vlien the Soul Speaks Continued From Page E-- Year this year, says A poem sometimes begins with just a fragment of speech, part of a statement, and the words, the sound of the words, excite you. Or, perhaps, an incident recalls a relation to something else or the rhythm of music is interesting and you attempt to fit words to it. however poems they are born of poets like Susu and Jack They draw heavily on the experience, the ambitions, the life of the poet Whenever, are bom, The central theme cf my work to date, Jack explains, is my hometown Gunnison In Sanpete County. I think I narted to write to try to turn people on to me, to Susu says. communicate, "The irony is I seldom read wonder if anyone poetry else does? Each poet has his own conception of what poetry is or should be. Susu says: As a poet I never want to lose sight of meaning. I believe many good poets get lost in form or visual gimmickery. I rate the idea high, hut with it must go the establishment of mood, description, Jack rian poetry, but among the young we see a virile poetry of life. They don't turn their heads from what is ugly and seek only what is pretty. I.ike other Utah poets, Jack and Susu are busy, active peo- l explained. Each poet writes in his own way. Some speak into tape recorders. Others prefer typewriters. Both Jack and Susu write longhand. "When Im ready to work on a poem, I stretch out on my back on a couch, grab a clip board and a pencil and begin. I always write devices Mechanical detract me, Jack says. I work out a in poem By Josh Mills Associated Press Writer NEW YORK - A bootleg record album with an unmarked white cover and blank labels is selling briskly around the country and in Canada and Columbia Records says It will go to com! to try to stop it. The mysterious records are of Bob Dylan performing 22 of his own songs. Only three of them have been released in regular albums. Exclusive Contract We consider the release of this record an abuse of the integrity of a great artist . . Columbia Records said in a Columbia statement. has Dylan under exclusive are at one the artist They defaming Dares See hs Cold Russia western poetry. I have eve. tried to use westIndian and Spanish ern rhythms in many of the poems, Jack says. Ordinary People Susu are, in most respects, ordinary people. They work, study, play and live like other Utahns Jack teaches creative English, writing and American humanities at East High School Susu woiks in a laundry, attends the Uniersity of I tah and entertains friends in her charming home. "There are thousands of poets in Utah, says Cameron Johns, one of the founders of the Utah Poetry Society and chairman of the High School Poetry Contest. are only writing sweet ver-e- , but the world needs that type of poetry. A few are writing real poems. The better poets arv forced onto the rampu- 's to eam a living. Its difficult to earn your keep today, even Jack and - a book full of poems. thousands wander The us. unrecognized, unamong known, writing their poems in soLfude. with "There are cnlv about 200 members of the Poetry Socie-tin the state actively engaged in promoting poetry, says Mr. Johns. This is a small number. bu interest 's far greater than juri within the society especially among young people. "Yes, counting students, I would say there rrj-- t be at least thre or four thousand persons writing poetry m fiae, jih h savs, " jlIi of it is a sweet, sentimental, Victo v 1 Cam. ron Johns The Young Are Virile List regime. The poet, Yuri Levitansky, 47, is the author of eight books of verse. The last was published in 1363, when Nikita Khrushchev was still in power and cultural liberals were under fewer restraints than they are now. A Translator who is a trans- lator of Soviet and East defrauding his admirers, the record company continued. For t ese reaon, Cohimhia Records in cooperation with Bob Dylans attorneys intend to take all legal stpps to stop the distribution and sale of this album. Wrapped in Secrecy The origin of the record is wrapped in secrecy. At first, it was sold under the counter, but it surfaced last week in several record stores in New York, advertised in the windows as the White Wonder. Euro- pean languages, began writing as a soldier for front-lin- e new papers during World War II. He has been considered a concerned with the poet virtues of everyday life. on to orr conjures good one. The last objection was challenged The full impact of tragedy is not immediate, Tyrone Guthrie has written. It ties in wait on the fringe of dreams. It wakes one with a start in the small hours. Guthrie w?s thinking about Oedipus Rex a play No Significant Action Time passes in Becketts plays, people say things and do things, but what is known as significant action does not take place. We end where we began the two tramps in Go-dstill waiting for their mysterious visitor, Krapp listening to an empty spool of tape, Winnie in Happy Days sinking even deeper into the sand, Hamm slowly putting his handkerchief back over his eyes. Nothing ot happens, comes, nobody goes, its awful! (Godot.) The full horror of nothing is precisely Becketts subject My little exploration is that whole zone of being that has always been set aside by artists as something unuseable make policy decisions, like Lear, but the weak and slightly confused people who, when they are feeling well enough to get up at all, generally commute between the park and the furnished room. who I cant go on like this.? one of Becketts cnaracters says in a play; and again Becketts answer comes, from an area beyond hops or despair thats what you think. V h loose pillow back. REGULAR The songs include This Wheel on Fire, i Shall Be Released, and The Mighty Quinn, all made into hits by other rock groups. These and six others were taped in the basement of Dylan's home in Woodstock, N.Y,. according to Rolling Stone, a rock n roll newspaper based in San Francisco. The newspaper said in a copyright article two longhaired men, who identified themselves only as Patrick and Merlin, were responsible. 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They too are waiting; playing back their memories; trying to fill up the space betw een the bell for waking and the bell for sleep (Happy days). This Is why Godot has been performed with great success in prisons. r' Blows at the fire, blows on his frozen hands? A nobody as something by definition incoif.pati-fcl- e with art. But not incompatible with life, as the people in rest homps ask: What's behind the snow what Is it, whom does it h.de? Who behind it sighs and laughs and cries? Who now But the artistic achievement of a writer hasnt always counted as much with the Nobel Prize jury as his nationality, or, worse, his politics. Nor do Becketts harsh plays offer much of the overt idealism recommended in the prize rules. You and I maan something! snickers Qov to Hamm in Endgame. Ah, thats a The comfort to be found in Becketts plays may seem fairly cold to some of us, but in the word annihilation Dr. Gierow puts his finger on why tiie plays fascinate us in the theater and continue to hold us long longer, perhaps, than we might wish after we have the theater. Endgame and Waiting For Godot and Krapps Last Tape and Happy nothDays and the rest are about ing. That is why they haunt us. Fringe ot Dreams The standard complaint about Becketts plays is that they do not. Aimless ia plotting, devoid of excitement, complained Variety when Godot tried out in 1956, in. of all Aimless is bad places, Miami. reporting, for Beckett's plays are as tightly woven as a fugue, but "devoid of excitement is perfectly accurate. It is even the po Int. At a small record shop near Columbia University, the proprietor just winked when asked where he got the The new poem, New Year on the Danube, compares warmth in Eastern Europe with a Soviet snowfall that hides something. Under the domes, in gold, I march with my in blue head uncovered," the first A New Years part savs God. how warm it is! Day A New Year's Day, warm, and at this mospring, blue ment it's over snowing Russia. Levitankv goes Objection radio talk announcing Becketts selection. Dr. Gierow acknowledged the explicit pesimism of the plays and novels, but found it cleansed by a love of mankind thai grows in understanding as it plumbs further into the depths of abhorrence. From that position, in the realms of annihilation, the writing of Samuel Beckett rises like a miserere from all mankind, its muffled minor key sounding liberation to the oppressed and comfort to those in need. which, I am reluctant to disclose, has never disturbed my slumber in the slightest. But Endgame has given me a couple of bad nights. Sales have been reported in California, New York, Boston and in Canada. Columbia Rectime ords estimated that about and 5,000 copies had been pressed. In Dylan's Home Liberal Poet "It's truly a world-vieinto a senps of unfor- Samuel Beckett gettable images and he has grandfathered as many remarkable works as he has directly the complete piays of Harold sired Pinter, for example. Bootleg Bob Dylan Disk Selling on Open Market At Own Speed .Each writes at Ills own speed. Some produce rapidly, while others find the process difficult and time consuming. been pubSusu, who lished nationally in "Poet Lore and locally in "Pen, and The Electric News, "Pillar of Salt, finds a dozen poems ii a year is a lot By Anthony Astrachan for me. Writing goes slowly. Washington Post Writer Maybe it's all the obligations ' MOSCOW The magazine I feel obligations to friends, to work, to school, to my Novy Mir published a poem home. They are all important, this week that on one level but distracting. fulfilled the demand of orthoJade, who hai produced dox critics for Soviet pastoral-ism- , three published books of but on another painted a poems and is now awaiting cold picture of the Soviet writof a creative publication ing textbook, says: "My poems seem to be getting longer and longer. I have said about all I want to say about my own valley and past. I find myself now moving more toward tne present, commenting on the life around me . . . and my poems are getting longer and longer. Jack's mod recent book of The Deep Song, poems, was published this year by the Utah Poetry Society, Inc. No living drama-- t i s t deserves the honor more. (It is by his plays that most of us know Beckett, although he started as a novelist.) He has succeeded, as few artists do, in crysfal-izm- g one ple with responsibilities great responsibility is to their art, and poetry. I write to try to clarify my relationship to my past, to of the relationship clarify western man to the mountains and deserts in which he lives, Jack says. Susan says: "When I want to . say something bad enough to say it well enough . , , I wnte a poem. long-han- Britches and snatches, here and there, now and then, until I finally have to sit down and polish it. My poems are 90 percent haphazard and 10 percent polish, but always finished longhand, Susu says. believe it happened. by the secretary of the Swedish Academy, Karl Ragnar Gierow, in j O Or Auditorium Perking Confer vi Richards Street 11 9.03 |