Pine River Anthology 1953
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Authors
Farris, Wm. W.
Issue Date
1953-06
Type
Book
Language
en_US
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Abstract
With the advent of The Pine River Anthology, a true seed of literary expression is planted here on our campus. I sincerely hope that those of you who can write--or would like to try your hand at it--will use this publication for your benefit: that is its purpose. The Parnassians, our college literary society, do not want to steal every show; we have brought you this sample in order that you may see what your colleagues are doing in the creative writing field. It may be that you can better our efforts; do so by all means. Attempt putting pen to paper, at least--it does something to the soul.
There have been many who have complained about too much literary dressings in the college paper. Perhaps this is the answer. To preserve The Almanian for the journalistic stylists may be a good subordinate reason for The Pine River Anthology.
It is a general consensus of opinion that writing is extremely difficult and often dreary. Let me assure you that it is difficult, but never dreary. No matter what you are attempting, you are in the process of creation--and creation cannot be uninteresting. None of us have the power of a Shakespeare, few have the beauty of a Shelly, and fewer still the feeling of a Donne. Nevertheless, what we write often--yes, I daresay always--comes from the accumulating processes of the human heart, and there is no stronger force on Earth than that.
Mount Olympus, they say, is no longer the home of the Muses, for--they tell us further--the Muses themselves are dead. Can they be dead as long as man seeks to express himself creatively? Can the Olympian Circle have closed its ranks and vanished? Do not be fooled by skeptics. The Muses will remain long after philosophers and theologians have lost themselves among their modern antiquities. As long as warm sands are touched by silver seas and graced by towering palms, as long as brightly-plumed birds glide over mysterious jungles, while there is love and hope and tomorrow--the Muses will be watching: waiting to inspire.
This is the extent of my foreword. That the first issue of the anthology did not appear before now does not mean this is the end. Rather, it is the beginning. Welcome to the field of creative writing; may it prove worth your while. Stain the pages with coffee, scribble in the margins, interpret, question, enjoy. And then--then pick up your pen and try something of your own. If you hear a whisper in your ear, don't run: that's one of the Nine. They're standing by your shoulder. Don't you see them? ... Well, if not, you will soon. The borderline between imagination and reality, you know, is very thin, and once crossed you may find immediately over the next hill your own bright star.
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""Toward Deeper Appreciation" - Donald Hart Gordon
"Star Gazing" - Robert Wood Clack
"Song of the Marionettes" - Stuart Friesema
"Book of the Dead" - Wilson Daugherty
"Books" - Alan Bowman
"The Rag Doll" - Alice Welsh
"Love" - Wm. W. Farris
"Rain" - Barbara Bernard Bauer
"The Rosebud on the Moor"
"Nature and Art"
"Wanderer's Night Song"
"Definition of a Statesman" - Henry Klomp
"Always Like a Duck" - R. Pingree Vance
"Sonnet III"" - Alice Walsh
"Yesterday and Tomorrow" - Wilson Daugherty
"Minstrel" - Alan Bowman
"A Life" - Wm. W. Farris
"Christian (?) Civilization" - Robert Wood Clack
"Dissonance" - Alan Bowman
"The Kaleidoscope" - Mary Jo Frye
"Ad Deum" - Barbara Bernard Bauer
"My Love Grew in the Candlelight" - Alice Welsh
"Song to a Snowflake" - Wm. W. Farris
"An Admonition" - May Butrick
"An Appeal" - May Butrick
"An Apology" - May Butrick
"Yoff" - Henry Klomp
"Elegy on an Army Inspector" - Henry Klomp
"The Lost is Not Found" - Wilson Daugherty
"Darkness" - Alice Welsh
"A Pseudosyncrasy and a Peccadillo" - Grant M. Gallup
"The Sneak" - Barbara Bernard Bauer
"Subversives' Chant" - R. Pingree Vance
"The Center of Reality" - Wm. W. Farris
"Versions of the Intelligentsia (A Tragic Farce in Three Fragments)" - Lois Howell
"Dai Butsu" - Robert Wood Clack
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The Parnassians at Alma College