Playbill
April, 1972
With the exception of Eugene McCarthy, who remains quixotic to most Americans, our politicians are not poets. In the Orient, things are different. Such major revolutionary leaders as Mao Tsetung and the late Ho Chi Minh may be minor poets in their moments of tranquillity. While still a student, Mao began to set down his ideas and experiences in verse, and he continued to write even after he became a leader of the Communist forces in the civil war against the Kuomintang. A chronicle of the revolu...
