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Moyers might well have drawn more telling responses from a group that ranges from well-established poets like Sandra McPherson, Robert Bly and Adrienne Rich to such lesser-known practitioners as Daisy Zamora, Sekou Sundiata and Coleman Barks. But by ignoring specifics--by avoiding the poet's daily business of weighing word against word--he finally divorces most of the poets from their poems. Ideally, when the poet sits down to write he or she is claiming a kinship, however collateral, with Dickinson and Donne, Chaucer and Virgil. What Moyers too often gives us is the poem as self-therapy...
...Coleman ,a native of Newark, N.J. served in the Air Force and was based in the U.S. He contracted polio when he was in his 20's, and noted that Coleman had suffered from infantile paralysis. "They said I would never walk again ," Coleman said...
...through muscle rehabilitation and physical therapy, Coleman successfully fought polio and stood on crutches at his graduation from the University of California at Los Angeles. Previously he had been wheelchair-bound...
...Coleman's inspirational recovery and dedication to cycling helped to drive the pair on their East Coast journey. Besides, Hiestand couldn't wait to be reunited with his classmates, whom he remembered fondly...
Webster and a fellow committee member, William Coleman Jr., a former Secretary of Transportation, resisted the idea of closing the two-block stretch of Pennsylvania Avenue when the study was begun after the apparently deliberate crash of a light plane at the mansion last September. "The only way terrorists succeed is to get the government to do something that makes the government look unstable," declared Webster. "The more you change things, the more they can be encouraged." During the discussions, when it was pointed out that Chelsea Clinton's bedroom was on the vulnerable Pennsylvania Avenue side of the White...