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HEX? ^ j»* JW^'C^&»W|8PBE m,n' ,\ -i \it V\ 1 ' 0\U!h ®?^fi' I %%• •••5 «rt erf the s&coo- SA^^II t revelation, an astoo- **j*ritnce> a sodden and %ftpttrttt mtoaaen that this It what Jttfe tau r ~-*4 f&it begins by losing eon- 6*f, Hi iiears riiytlan before *Orta, He doesn't choose the thoa£tos--Owy choose him and worts fail into ptact/' Ftopie ha re sach errowow Wets <rf what a poem should be, Abbe protested : \ft doesn't have to communi- c*$e; It doesn't have to be dec*. \Modem poetry doesnt set forth particular ideas. It stimu- lates a mood as music does. \You're not trying to tell any- one ajiyfldng. You're setting forth what goes on in you/' The poet's concept of his pn«n> \message\ often is non- existent It has no message as he writes it Even his own an- alvsis is a comnflation of what other people think he's trying to say. \The moment you are con- sciously aware of what your are saying you Mil it Words are a barrier between emotion and ywL BUI it 9 i&%3 t» tun tneonz* ing about it afterwards. I am a complex person and I'm think- ing a dozen things simultaneous- ly. \Each interpretation evokes the same response: 'That's it! That's what I was thinking POB* SPEAKS - Geerge Abbe, Plattsburgh State University Coflege's first wrftei^hi-residence, disrates the birth #f poetry ia the mind of the poet, tik audience was members •f Plattsburgh Uttk Theater. when I wrote that. That's what I was feeling. 1 \I don't really know if any of the interpretations are right,\ be said thoughtfully, \but it seems that way, as though they all are.\ • * + CHttmrt interpretations are most revetteyte their -inno- cence and imagination. \As children grow up they lose im- agination and creativity. \College students are so self- conscious they can't really an- alyze. And they cant write explosive * innocent irrational stuff.\ \As Ciardi says. The world of the poem is the world of complete irrationality.'\ This is a basic difference, ac- cording to psychologists, be- tween the poet and the aver- age person. The poet's mind is creative, imaginative, but the average person's thoughts are limited by convention. • • • However, this creative abil- ity can be developed in some people through free association and through training oneself to remember dreams. \There is a state of being contained in a dream. It is the subconscious telling one of the reality he must face. \The subconscious is loaded with images trying to reach us. We're a hunderd per cent healthier if we write down our dreams and face the realities of them.\ # # 0 Bfaay of Abbe's poems are the result of dreams. Others come from allowing his mind to drift back toward childhood or to concentrate on something un- related to his everyday world —a painting or music. Often there are only scat- tered words on awaking from a dream or after developing a \permissive state of mind\ through a conscious effort, but he jots the words down. Later, sometimes weeks later, \the poems are written for me. I don't think about them even for a minute. I am articulating something as I write. Some- thing is happening. As the pen hits the paper I know this is it. 4 The poem is written between the point of the pen and the paper.\ • + * Some of his beat poems have been written. Abbe said, in ex- perimental situations where he worked with a painter and an instrumentalist in front of an audience: 'The pianist or organist im- + * ttoft and both tte Mtater aad I Itiil the HUM moM i&d ea^ipftas \Artists are so cloae is their mopda.\ (Be described an instance where both he and the painter need shades of Wue and sweep- ing curves in response to the music.) \These poems are among my best. It feels like my stomach's 00 lire, like a hot ball of lead. 1 have the whole audience cre- ating with me. \It's like 'the difference be- tween worshiping somewhere alone or in a huge congregation [in a church.\ • • • Bat even here he must be lost completely in his work. \I can't let the audience see me writ- ing. I then become too self- consctftp*\ Psychologists have said that Abbe's poems illustrate two basic themes: man's isolation from his fellowman and the pboniness of man's experience, the false pretenses, putting on a phony front to get by in the world. But he is also very much in- volved in the world and its problems. His pacifist 'beliefs come through with intensity in his writing. Base medics select 2 men for PRIDE A PRIDE committee of the 820th Medical Group has select- ed two men erf that organiza- tion for weekly awards at Platts- burgh Air Force Base. A-2C David E. Green and tAC Peter A. Hees ehere the distinction. Greene is assigned to the hospital dining hall. Hess works in the registrar office. Because of their selection. | they will be considered with other weekly winners for the monthly honors. \All poets hive written of tile \V* *© 4* '-m w« make tie world we ttok w# ehwdd-heve, a* we make tt 'perfect* \But the poet Jr~*i«n ty the time false hire of wide, the aame arrogance as the sci- entist\ • * • His subcMsdoas being aba strives for power, but it finds its expression in words rather thai! in weapons. Abbe said \modern poetry\ is brought about by science: \Our lives ar^ao different now from what they were in the time of Longfellow. \We do have psychology now -a**\ «•*•>* v-frF * '?* •ad *« Hve to a warid of great ttraniiiM aad twrioBt, ^Pwpie mm with treroeA- doui intensity. Pbets are *> highly individualized in their reactions th*t it is hard for any- one to reload to them, \This reaction is a highly unique, individual experience. It is not surprising that there are so few followers of any one poet.\ * • * No one can decide who Is mediocre or who is great, he declared. \It's just a matter of chance, who is heard of and who isn't. \It's a matter of people's re- action conciding enough to put a writer over.\ W t r% >V£ new me ir t The Burlington Savings Bank is in its second century of un- interrupted interest payments to depositors. The Bank re- cently credited interest at the rate of four and one-half per- cent annually compounding quarterly . . . just one of many good reasons for saving at Vermont's largest bank. Open your account now. 80USSR MWr> Council} 23M, KiygMa of Cohunbus ken, has 14 new members. the Hew members are Ml- cbaei JlcCaftery, Paul Doo- cette, Andaw SerrMt, Leon- ard Matttnaeij, Raymond Zab- locki and Artbar Lawrence. Also William Riley, George HaafleU, Joseph A. Storella, Robert Brewster, Elmer Has- ker, the Rev. Paul Lederman and Tyrone Rabkleau. The Knights here also nave announced they will hold a dance at the KnfcM* af OolnD- bus Borne m liberty St on Saturday night trtm I jun, to 1 am Ralph Boardman, chairman, said all members and their guests are welcome and that music is to be furnished by the Harmony Boys. W1LLSBORO Area News Mrs. Raymond Miller Pbeae N34IM Deposits received before close of business November 10 will earn interest from November 1. SAVE-IY-MAIL thousands do. 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