Pine River Anthology 1968
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Authors
Keeslar, Douglas
Teeuwissen, Peter
Speakman, Steve
Issue Date
1968
Type
Book
Language
en_US
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Abstract
Students today, in general, tend to write with a broadly-sweeping, vague allusiveness which characterized the popular arts in the fifties. In the graphic arts, the abstraction which had lost its referend was laid before the critic with the suggestion made that color and design were of the most significance. In popular music, the ballad was replaced to some extent by the titillating mysticism of the Beatles and many lesser craftsmen. In the theatre, students favored the absurd, and in the literary arts the structures of good free verse were overlooked and bad poetry sprang up in a rash. The point of all this, is that art is, at least in the mind of the Parnassians, observation and hard work. As one must be able to observe and draw faithfully to have any proficiency in the graphic arts, so must an author recount faithfully to have any proficiency in the literary arts. The literary arts need be firmly based on the images of nature and human nature. Imagery, naturalism, originality, and comprehensibility are necessary. The student works which follow have, to some degree, met these requirements.
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Cover Design - Rick Wilson
"I've Got The Morning If You've Got the Time" - Steve Speakman
"A Short Story" - Dennis Carter
"Lead Me Not, Lover" - Phyllis Eyer
"Once I Had a Catcher's Mitt, But I Lost It" - Steve Speakerman
"Two Hunters" - Mason Cobb
"God's Country" - Peter Teeuwissen
"The Mock Heroic Fragment" - Douglas Keeslar & Peter Teeuwissen
"Leonard's At Night" - Terry Pettit
Illustrations by Dodie Marr, Sue Walker, Steve Bondi, & Doug Keeslar
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The Parnassians at Alma College