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Dresbach Continues His Crusade Against 'Phony' U.S. Poetry
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IHl HftDAV. .SEPTEMBER 12, 1963
By ROBERT D. CAREV
United Press International
EUREKA SPRINGS, Ark.
(UPO A frail, aging man con
tinues a life-long crusade against
the "phony" in American poet
try from a hillside house in
northwest Arkansas' "Little
Switzerland."
Glenn Ward Dresbach, who
has been called one of America's
best living lyric poets by a num-
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ber of critics, adopted the crag
gy terrain of Eureka Springs
more than 30 years ago. The
tortured turns of the city's
streets are as sharp as his con
tempt for what he calls the
"eccentric exhibitionism" of the
lost generation and the beat
generation.
His credentials as a ranking
American poet are impressive.
Eleven volumes of his poetry
have been published, and selec
tions of his verse have appeared
in the Atlantic Monthly, Yale
Review, Scribners Magazine,
Century, Poetry: A Magazine of
Verse and the New York Times
among others.
Named A Life Fellow
He has been named a life
fellow in the institute of arts and
letters and won the George
Sterling Memorial prize, Poetry
World prize, Hamlin Garlin Me
morial prize, American Literary
association prize and the Poetry
Society of Texas award.
For a generation after World
War I, when the spokesmen of
the lost generation wove defeat
ism and resignation, the voice
of Dresbach almost alone pro
tested for the creation of beau
ty, truth and hope.
Today's "beat" poets are the
curren target of his contempt.
"I don't believe that obscurity
and incomprehensibility in poe
try is modern or anything else,"
Dresbach said. His frail body
snapped out the remarks filling
the rooms.
"This eccentric exhibitionism
that calls attention to something
that doesn't need attention is
no more than a hen squawk. I
resent it," the old man said
in a tone that booked no ques
tions. Dresbach always has shunned
the "haunts" of the poet. For
him no lost wanderings with
the avante garde in Paris, no
turtle neck sweater and beard
disguise to go with a Greenwich
Village address.
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What about T. S. Elliot and
Ezra Pound?
"That's what I mean," he
cracked like a rifle shot.
"That's where it all started.
The critics put words in the
mouths of the poets. That isn't
poetry. It's anti-poetry."
Then he settled bacK in his
chair and the hard exterior
melted quickly. He smiled
benignly in a grandfather man
ner. "I have always lived in the
world," he said quietly, "meet
ing life on its own terms. I
have always subsidized myself."
Always a part of the day-today
life and work that char
acterizes most of our lives,
Dresbach was reared on a farm,
went to college, and served as
an accountant, and an executive
accountant for several large
firms.
He was born in Lanark, 111.,
74 years ago, and his early life
on the farm reappears in the
lines of many of his poems.
During World War I, he was
commissioned in the army,
worked as an accountant and
was discharged as a captain.
Dresbach found nothing in
congruous in being both a poet
and accountant. "Shakespeare
was an actor and business man
ager for a theatrical company.
Chaucer was a comptroller, Kip
ling a working journalist there
are many others."
Dresbach, lute James Mich-
ener, believes that a writer wno
is not read, has not written.
"Absolutely," he barked.
"That goes for music too, and
plays and painting. There must
be an audience. It's all non
sense, this hiding-hole business,
this studied obscurity."
Quiet agam, tie leaned for-
about poetry, boy. Lyric poetry
must be an organized part of a
whole. It must be a comprehen
sive development of some theme
that is important to our times
and our people and it must
reach them."
Then, speaking with the final
ly of the hills outside, he said,
ward. "I'll tell you something I "That, is poetry."
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Dogs Too Feel Loneliness
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That was her condition as she
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Forgot Her
With the excitement of travel,
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There were other dogs near; she
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