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Show eT MH For Baseball Butts No Poetesses, They Should poetry by women be very much different from poetry by men? A wonderfully easy-to-read anthology edited by Carolyn Kizer, 100 Great Poems by Women(EccoPress paperback, distributed by Norton, $15), seems to answerthe question: Well, x yes—but be ho. then 2ee ainly even some ofthe early poemsin this splendid collection, which goes back some 500 years, strike a solid blow for female equality, such as Lady Mary Wortley Montagu’s 18th-century Caveatto the Fair Sex, which begins “Wife and servant are the same,/Butonlydifferin the name.” And some modern poets, like the American Lisel Mueller, gently makethe point that love means morethan “two bodies meshing together”—a romantic notion that, traditionally at least, a feminine voice perhaps can best express, But most ofthese poets would stand out just as strongly in a general anthology. Personal assertiveness, sensitive observation and social commentary are all present, ranging from Sarah Cleghom’s famous quatrain about childrenin a mill watching menplaying golf to Gwendolyn Brooks’ equally biting We Real Cool, which begins “Wereal cool. WelLeft school”and ends “We/Jazz June. We/Die soon.”All ofthe predictable names are here,from Elizabeth Barrett Browningto Sylvia Plath, and many who are less famous are equally worthy. Even Julia Ward Howe and EmmaLazarus find room in these fresh and far-ranging pages. And you'll notice that the editorcalls her writers poets, not poetesses. So much for gender! Toes) baseball buffs will be able to Nanton sea) 2100 cards (Or ara) r PVar ar ey film Ronin, which opens Friday,folT= six mercenarieson a secret mission. Italso follows Robert De Niro on a gut-wrenching car chase throughParis. De Niroandhis co-stars were in the cars but left the driving to pros. Roath Reran Called “« Cri Me Kee tobacc ora th Cates nee name for samurai warriors with‘out masters) began shooting in Mua ate AWE ee EEN Paris last No- vember, not long after Princess Diana died there in a speeding car. “We were De Niro goingthrough at 120 mph,” the director, ressome John Frankenheimer,told us. “The differ- between ence was, our drivers weren’t drunk.” What _ aboutthe risk to the actors? “If you do this Fasten your kind of movie, there are risks,” said the di- eatbelts rector. “Thisis not a medium for si Pe eo Farts hte oae |) CoC an nit EtmeeTurd i UN Civilian Casualties Grow oe Situations,” said UNSecretary-General Kofi Annan. “This is unacceptable.”At press time, 17haddiedon UNhumanitarian missions thisyear. It’sthefirst civilians had be n killedthan UN . heave died this year). Theseciviliansoften arededicatedindividualscaughtin regionalconSlicts, Maria Wewiorska, 31, ¢ Polish woman workingas secretarytothe UN specialrepresentativein Tbilisi, Georgie, was shot while openingthedoorof herapartmentin whatlookedlike a mob hit—notuncommon in former Soviet republic. Other recent deaths were in Burundi, Afghanistan end Tajikistan. Annan calledfora reviewafUNsecurityarrangements. America’s Worst Pothole? n April, we announced that Citizens Against Government Waste was searching for America’s worst potholes. The watchdog group received flurry of responsesdescribing gargantuan craters. After lengthy deliberation, CAGW hasgiven the award to a 40footlong, boomerang-shaped pothole on Dillon Beach Road—a rural, twoane highway in Marin County,Calif. t was nominated by Lynn Schnitzer, a PARADE reader from Dillon Beach, ‘The runners-up were a 9x40-foot whopper in northeast Washington, D.C., and a series of 12 enormouspotholes that forced the closure of an entire parkinglot in Florida, The whole state of Pennsylvania had the dubiousdistinction of being nominated by several residents. PAGE 12 - SEPTEMBER 20, 1908 - PARADE MAGAZINE |
