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Hayden Carruth - College Essay

Hayden Carruth

Scrambled Eggs & Whiskey is 's most recent collection of
works. Published in 1996, it reflects a dark, boozed washed view of the world
throw the eyes of a 76- year-old man. His works reflect his personal experiences
and his opinion on world events. Despite technical merit Carruth works have
become depressing.
Hayden Carruth is a child of the depression born in Vermont in 1921
where he lived for many tears. He now lives in upstate New York, where he taught
in the Graduate Creative Writing Program at Syracuse University, until his
recent retierment. He has published twenty-nine books, mostly of poetry but also
a novel, four books of criticism, and anthologies as well. Four of his ...

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Carl Sandburg Award, the Whiting Award, the Ruth
Lily Prize, the National Book Award and The National Book Critics' Circle Award
for Collected Shorter Poems, 1946-1991.
In "Another" Carruth comments on the goal of poetry. He begins by
dismissing truth and beauty;

"Truth and beauty
were never the
aims of proper poetry
and the era
which proclaimed them
was a brutal
era."
-Another

The era mite have been brutal but "truth and beauty" where and still are
a large part of "proper poetry". The collected works of William Shakespeare and
Robert Frost both have great deal of truth and beauty in their works as well as
the tragic ordeals in life while Carruth only sees the brutality of life.
Carruth goes on to name the goal of poetry as:

"...let
justice be primary
when we sing,..."
-Another

Even though he's primary goal is justice this collection of poems seems
to be one long complaint about injustice. It is easy to agree with Carruth in
the "Quality of wine" ...

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