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Carl Phillips ’81 dramatizes the weeping of Patroclus’ horses at their owner’s death in the poem “Happiness”; “Immortal, / and yet earthbound, hovering around their disbelief, / around their instinct not to believe??” they weep without understanding, until the anguish recedes and they are returned to indifference. It is the analysis of sorrowful themes such as this, tinged with optimism, that characterizes his latest collection “Speak Low.”In his 10th book, a collection...
...really believe??and heck, my column is premised on it—that there is such a thing as a national sensibility. This singular, essential taste guides our behavior not just where art and entertainment are concerned, but also in government, politics, law—in everything...
...write, and produce. He is a true hip-hop Renaissance man. If there’s one knock on “The Renaissance,” it is that the momentum fades at times. You have strings of excellent songs?, like “Believe?? and “Shaka” at the end of the album. Other times, you have songs like “Official” and “You” that are a bit too undistinguished. On the latter, the jazzy grooves sound a bit too familiar...
...thought, ‘Well, I’m crazy!’ But religious questions have always dogged me in my life,” Page says. “So I decided worst case scenario, I go to divinity school and I figure out what I believe??and maybe I don’t believe anything, but at least I’ll know...
...single, “Believe,” Endicott pleads for “something more to keep me breathing for.” The lyrics (despite the bad grammar) recall an Elliot Smith song, filled with dark and brooding imagery; but the video for “Believe?? wastes its existential potential on cheap cliches. What should have been a deeply moving and raw music video becomes a glorified iPod commercial, with slightly worse lighting, defective editing, and awkward crowd surfing. As the band plays on a stage lined by flailing arms and hands, the camera randomly...