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After more than six hours on the courts, Chu had earned his way into both Final Fours. Not that tomorrow will be any sort of cakewalk—the co-captain will face Baylor’s Benedikt Dorsch, the nation’s top player, in the singles competition at 12 p.m. When that match is over, Chu and Kumar will take on Georgia’s top-seeded Antonio Ruiz and Alex Isner...
...BODY by Michael Benedikt. 77 pages. Wesleyan...
...Benedikt might be a cubist or surrealist painter, reconstructing the body, finding new relationships between lip and eye, discovering with insane logic that man's hair is the most important part of love. Raised in New York City, Benedikt is continually inspecting, distorting and re-creating the skyline of human existence. The method is often deliberately and delightfully nonsensical...
...Benedikt's poems, the body is somehow in a contest with the spirit, while fact struggles with fancy. The result is a verbal battlefield strewn with strange, barely recognizable victims of war, delighting in their own demise...
...that the poem as ballad is simply coming back into its own. In any case, the music world is experimenting with a revolutionary surrealism, and contemporary songwriters and poets are apparently enriching one another's work. Many folk-rock lyrics stand up as poems, and some poets-Michael Benedikt and Canada's Leonard Cohen among them-are devoting part of their energy to writing songs. Meanwhile, a modern music has entered into and enlivened the poem, giving Faulkner's demon-driven creatures new voices for their poetic torments...