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It is the poets and painters who react instantly to a new
medium like radio or TV. Radio and gramophone and tape
recorder gave us back the poet’s voice as an important
dimension of the poetic experience. Words became a kind of
painting with light, again. But TV, with its deep-participation
mode, caused young poets suddenly to present their poems in
cafés, in public parks, anywhere. After TV, they suddenly felt
the need for personal contact with their public. (In print-
oriented Toronto, poetry-reading in the public parks is a public
offense. Religion and politics are permitted, but not poetry, as
many young poets recently discovered.)
John O’Hara , the novelist, wrote in The New York Times
Book Review of November 27, 1955:
You get a great satisfaction from a book. You know