Word: beginnings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Crimson scored right out of the box to begin the second contest of the afternoon...
...austerity of Memorial Church I felt my eyebrows begin to twitch and rise as The Brattle Street Chamber Players, cramped into the narrow alter area, launched into the evening's program sans conductor. My fears were quickly dispelled as it became clear that a tall man waving a baton would only have gotten in the way of this new student group. This is how string chamber music was always meant to be performed. Each player eerily synchronizes perfectly with the rest, with every head swaying in time to the rhythm. In the intimate playing atmosphere they create with the audience...
...read, the poems become richer and richer. Associations are drawn behind the images, and stories begin to emerge. Sometimes there is only a hint of that story. One poem is about the old movie "Titanic," most of it describing a family watching the movie, laughing at the film's melodrama. Then the poem ends with the narrator sensing a leak in the house, a crack that "is slowly widening to claim each of us in random order, and we start to rock in one another's arms...
...true heart of the poems is found in these comments. It is not actually the objects that Salter is writing about but rather perceptions of those objects. The reader is drawn in by these perceptions. Seeing through Salter's eyes, we begin to understand her connections, how her mind works. In "Libretto" images of a record player and a silk couch lead to the past, so we see what these images mean to the narrator...
...read, the poems become richer and richer. Associations are drawn behind the images, and stories begin to emerge. Sometimes there is only a hint of that story. One poem is about the old movie "Titanic," most of it describing a family watching the movie, laughing at the film's melodrama. Then the poem ends with the narrator sensing a leak in the house, a crack that "is slowly widening to claim each of us in random order, and we start to rock in one another's arms...