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"i sing of Olaf" (sometimes referred to as "i sing of Olaf glad and big") is a poem by E.E. Cummings.It first appeared in Cummings' 1931 collection ViVa.It depicts the life of Olaf, a conscientious objector and pacifist during the First World War who is tortured by the United States Army but nonetheless "will not kiss your fucking flag", and subsequently dies in prison.
In 1972, Millay's poem "Conscientious Objector" was put to music by Mary Travers (of Peter, Paul and Mary) on her album Morning Glory. [76] In 1978, American composer Ivana Marburger Themmen used Millay's text for her composition Shelter This Candle from the Wind. [77]
The 1974 poem Man-Fate explores this transformation from Brother Antoninus into William Everson, the West-Coast poet-shaman. Everson was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease in 1972. Everson spent his remaining years living near the central California coast in Swanton, California, a few miles north of Santa Cruz, in a cabin he dubbed Kingfisher Flat.
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For many of the COs, their time at the camp was a period of great creativity. William Everson, architect and printer Kemper Nomland, Kermit Sheets and William R. Eshelman founded the Untide Press at the camp in 1943, with the aim of bringing poetry to the public in an inexpensive but attractive format.
Frank Samuel Herbert Kendon (12 September 1893 – 28 December 1959) was an English writer, poet and academic. He was also an illustrator, and journalist. A campaigning pacifist at the beginning of the 2nd World War, he had served in the 1st and termed himself a conscientious objector thereafter.
Because of his pacifism and record as a conscientious objector, Tippett was not allowed into the occupied zone and thus missed the performance. [44] However, in 1947 he was able to travel to Budapest where his friend, the Hungarian composer Mátyás Seiber, had organised a performance by Hungarian Radio. The local singers' problems with the ...
Despite his late start, he was a frequent contributor to magazines and anthologies and eventually published fifty-seven volumes of poetry. James Dickey called Stafford one of those poets "who pour out rivers of ink, all on good poems." [8] He kept a daily journal for 50 years, and composed nearly 22,000 poems, of which roughly 3,000 were ...