Pine River Anthology 1954 v2
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Authors
Vance, Robert Pingree
Murphy, John
Issue Date
1954-05
Type
Book
Language
en_US
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Abstract
The Advent of the third PRA coincides, as did the first, with the American season for graduations and recess for classes for the summer. And as sure as bacon is tangent to fried eggs, we are also in the American season for advice-from-the-elders-to-the-youths.
Such advice is aimed primarily at seniors who are about to step out of range, but few are the underclassmen who escape unscathed. It is propagated from the rostrum, the pulpit; it is pricked to tie fore in letters from TIME, LIFE, Acme Placement Agency, and the USAF
It is not important that these talks are long, repetitive, uninteresting, and accompanied by sweltering and discomfort for the audience. The fact that it is well meant, and that you can drop off without missing anything you haven't been told, about offset the inconvenience.
What is important is that the things these talk people say are true. We are forming our characters at college. We will never change the habits we are forming. We have learned to live together. Getting out in the world is going to be tough on some of us if we don't look out. We must stand on high principles. We must live each day to the full.
Hence the PRA. If you ever hope to write, write in college. Such is the thought behind our humble Anthology. It is an organ for creative college writing, for which anyone at Alma may submit.
Running a casual eyeball over this issue, you will see that it is mostly poetry. I can't explain it. I have always been a prose man myself. I am therefore extremely indebted to John Murphy, my associate editor, and to May Butrick, Secretary of the Parnassians, whose minds can extract, and palates can judge the juicy goodness within said poetry. In Editing, they have been strong, strong. Thanks are also due to Jane French, a non-member, Wilson Daugherty, Advisor, and Bill Farris, now with the armed people, for hours of labour and organization.
It's good students are writing poetry; it shows that Romance is not quite dead, the Real has not quite taken over. Wonder and mystery still live where they used to, by the marge of the pond, and deep in the woods. Hearts are still sundered, and foes vanquished. Only the poet can tell of these.
Turn the pages and read, and having read, write; for it is truly said, "It is thru the streets of Bye-and-bye that we reach the House of Never."
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"On Poetry that Needs to be Translated to be Understood" - Ronald Baney
"So Well Remembered" - Barabara Bernard Bauer
"Summer Dawn" - Barbara Bernard Bauer
"The Primal Rose" - Robert H. Woods
"Meditations I" - Robert H. Woods
"Modern Interpretation" - R. E. McMullen
Japanese "Haiku" and "Tanka" Translated - Robert Wood Clack
"In Imitation of the Japanese "Haiku"" - Robert Wood Clack
"Steins" - Leone Hall
"Exit" - Leone Hall
"Beauty" - Sandra Marshall
"The Painted Doll" - Sandra Marshall
"The Map" - Wilson Daugherty
"Masquerade" - Wilson Daugherty
"Industrial Blessings?" - Robert Wood Clack
"La Coeur de ma Mere" - Mary Jo Frye
"The Garbageman" - Dr. Henry Klomp
"The Passing of the Birch Rod" - Dr. Henry Klomp
"Crazy Dugan's Song" - Wilson Daugherty
"What I Would" - Wilson Daugherty
"Prayer Penultima" - Richard E. McMullen
"In Heavy Spring" - Richard E. McMullen
"Poem" - Richard E. McMullen
"Promise" - Jane French
"Goals -- From the Beginning, to Justice, to the End" - Eugene Pattison
"shoelaces" - george spriggs
"sounds" - george spriggs
"prejudice" - george spriggs
"look heavenward, brother" - george spriggs
"your choice" - george spriggs
"monotony" - george spriggs
"Peter During the Interim" - Richard E. McMullen
"Cycle" - Tom Scholl
"Prayer" - John Murphy
"Hart Crate" - John Murphy
"Dialogue (?)" - Alice Welsh
"Justify my Mediocrity" - Alice Welsh
"The Oddity in Shape" - Alice Welsh
"Poems" - Alice Welsh
"What Thundering Must Pass" - Alice Welsh
"Sonnet V" - Alice Welsh
"Canto" - Wilson Daugherty
"Some Former Alma College Poets" - Robert Wood Clack
"Transcendent Art" - Robert Wood Clack
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The Parnassians at Alma College