Word: australians
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...hundred and eight vendors participated in the event, and about a fourth of those were businesses and restaurants located in the Square. Many of the vendors boasted wares "authentic" to their ancestral heritage, such as African trade beads, Guatemalan hand bags and Australian Aboriginal art. Food--ranging from Indian vegetables to fried dough--was also in plentiful supply...
Wallace-Crabbe, Harvard's visiting professor of Australian Studies from 1987-1988, returned to Mather House on October 1 at the tail end of a world-wide poetry reading tour...
Underwear, Aboriginals, Hamlet and an airline passenger named Death seem unlikely subjects for a poetry reading. But Australian poet Chris Wallace-Crabbe combined these and other topics in a reading last Thursday that ranged from the absurd to the beautiful to the profound...
...beauty in itself and as a mirror of human emotion and thought. As Wallace-Crabbe explained, his poetry attempts to "render the nature of consciousness in tangible images." In his poem "Mind," for example, the inner conflict of the mind is reflected in the speaker's surrounding in the Australian bush...
Wallace-Crabbe also uses color as a motif to vividly paint a picture of the Australian vista. He noted that even when he is not describing nature, Australia's rich colors--red, gold, ochre, fawn--make their way into his poetry...