KWSAN REVIEWS
FESTIVAL: Poetic pleasure
By KAREN KLINKENBERG
Kansas St Writer
A gentle man, his poetry and his string sitar made up the second program for the Festival of the Arts. Lawrence Ferlinghetti communicated to his audience subjects from the sun to Jesus Christ in the language of his poetry for the "right on" people.
Beginning the program with a chanting song on his impressions of the sun, Ferlinghetti sat on the floor and sang with his sitar. In a poem titled "Underwear" he made some provoking comments about the one piece of apparel common among all men. "It is all we have between us in the end," he said.
"Underwear it is all we have between us in the end," he said. And then called "Poetry the underwear of the soul."
A poem on overpopulation repeats the phrase "I must have misunderstood something here," when he reads a newspaper. Death, he said in the poem, is not the answer to our problem.
Many of his poems were taken from books he had published of his poetry and others from a journal he wrote. Each topic dealt with a current problem or feeling. One poem took his audience on an LSD journey and another on a bus trip through Moscow, each conveying unique and different feeling of the poet.
But the audience liked particularly a poem he wrote last night here in Lawrence while staying at the Ramada Inn. He called it just a rough draft but the poem was about a couple what he saw in their actions and faces.
After a round of applause from a crowd that filled the first floor of Hoch, Ferlinghetti was met with a group of students backstage, and accepted an invitation to go and talk with people at a house.
BOOKS: Cheap yarn
Bv MIKE SHEARER
NOG, by Rudolph Wurlitzer (Simon & Schuster paperback, 95 cents)
Nog is a "head adventure" which is supposed to do to literature what Dylan has done to lvices.
In fact, Nog is a cheap yarn with no core, no essence. This lack of a core, this essencelessness is wrapped in a sometimes imaginative plot and a series of drug adventures.
The main character is a young man who identifies with an old eccentric he once met and who passed on a heritage to him. That heritage came in the form of a truck with a tank on its bed. In this windowed tank was an octypus, which turns out to be the most symbolic character in the book.
The octypus turns out to be phoney, as phoney as the book itself.
Wurlitzer would probably consider himself to be innovative and, indeed, avid garde. And, if, as often seems to be the case, innovation and avid garde means a break away from traditional clarity and meaningfulness, then Wurlitzer has succeeded. But since other innovators and avid garde writers have succeeded in making new application of old techniques, maybe Wurlitzer just knew how to sell a book.
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THE VOYEUR, by Henry Sutton (Fawcett, $1.25)—Last year's big dirty book (if you"pardon the term) is out in paperback, and it'll move fast at the super-markets. It's by the author of "The Exhibitionist," one Henry Sutton, and it has sensational appeal similar to that book and the writings of Harold Robbins and Irving Wallace. Where "The Exhibitionist" dwelled on the careers of a Hollywood star and his daughter (guess who), "The Voyeur" dwells on a magazine publisher named Irvin Kane, whose magazine is called Tomcat (naked girls and calendars and the like—are you getting the picture?). You have to read this one to see how unbelievably bad a book can be. And how it will sell.
Apr. 1
1970 KANSAN 5
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TELL IT LIKE IT IS, by Chuck Stone (Pocket Books, 95 cents)
—A collection of columns by a young black writer who was labeled by Newsweek "the angry young man of the Negro press."
The columns appeared in the New York Age, the Washington Afro-American and the Chicago Defender. As Stone observes himself, much of his writing seems tame alongside more inflammatory commentaries of the past few years. His theme throughout is black power—at the polls, in communities, in businesses and education, in government, in personal relations. He is no moderate, and in racial relations he has no use for moderates. His writings undoubtedly will anger many—especially liberals—and this seems his intent.
DO YOU KNOW WHERE "AL'S RESTAURANT" ?? IS ?? Win $10.00 by guessing
write c/o "Al's Restaurant"
P.O. Box 808, Lawrence, Kansas
Winner Will Be Announced in Friday's Paper (watch each day for clue)
CLUE #1 SMALL COVER CHARGE
CLUE #2 NIGHTLY ENTERTAINMENT
The fourth annual Festival of the Arts will offer at 8 p.m. tonight the New York Rock and Roll Ensemble, in Hoch Auditorium. The group plays classical selections before intermission and returns to give rock adaptations of them.
Festival previews - rock ensemble
EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. (UPI)—John McGee, 17, was in a doctor's office for treatment of a heart condition. He was looking out the window while waiting for the doctor when he saw several youths acost Mrs. Rosemary Powell Jr., and grab her purse. McGee chased the youths and recovered the woman's purse.
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Dorian Rudyntsky, Michael Kamen, Martin Fulterman, Brian Corrigan, and Clifford Nivison write their own songs and arrange other compositions.
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