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The Playwright's Poems |
| Section: BOOK WORLD / REVIEWS |
| Author: Carol Herman |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 9/1/2007 |
| Size: 983 Words, 5,948 Characters |
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THE COLLECTED POEMS OF TENNESSEE WILLIAMS
Edited by David Roessel and Nicholas Moschovakis
With a cd of the author reading
New Directions, $23.50, 304 pages
In the late 1970s, at the invitation of a friend, I went to a party at Tennessee Williams' apartment in the French Quarter. Though the legendary playwright did not make an appearance (it was said he might be out of town), other luminaries did. Allen Ginsberg was there, seated on a well-worn yellow velvet divan, legs crossed in lotus position, feet curled in gray socks. W.S. Merwin was there, too, wearing knee-high brown suede boots trimmed in suede fringe, smiling and mingling easily in the small crowd. It was a dynamic but quiet event, one marked by the hushed expectati...
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...ut without a doubt and in large measure, the same earthy wisdom is available.
Now there's many fool
things a woman will do
To catch a man's eye, she'll
wear a tight shoe,
She'll wear a light dress and
catch a bad cold
And have a tooth pulled for
a tooth of gold.
— from "Gold Tooth Blues"
Copyright © 2007 The Washington Times, LLC.
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