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: POETIC PRELUDE : White, Fitzgerald and Price form a strange company, but each presents a vision of life that goes beyond shoring up broken fragments, beyond tragedy; that transcends the ashes of the early poetry of Eliot; that echoes the song of unity in Whitman; that has its feet solidly in an everyday reality like William Carlos Williams, yet reaches for that transcendence like our Emily . -Ron Price, A Comment on Some Poets of the First Decade of the Forth Epoch, 26 June 1995. : White got in early : and was all set by 1986 : when the 4th epoch got underway. : It was a good thing : ‘cause it was all over for him : in 1993:got a taste of the Holy Year. : Fitzgerald was turning out : delightful little booklets : in the early years of this epoch: : four by 1990 and more since, I hear. : Price had yet to publish anything : except the occasional poem : like dozens of others : around this Baha’i world : of promises, prayers, unending pieties : and glorious prognostications. : Their voice was gentle, : with some solid, meaty bits, : in a world turning more : to an audio-visual extravaganza, : to doing things; : but here was a voice, : however distant, : however part of the wilderness. : These were the quiet days : before a Lesser Peace process : would witness an entry-by-troops. : The voice of the Baha’i world : and its poets was still quiet. : This was the silence before the war; : the energy was building, : slowly building, the prelude. : Ron Price : 26 June 1995

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