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...wrote, directed, and produced “Fall,” a comedy about the ups and downs of being a freshman. “There is always a spin and twist to his writing,” Zachary B. Sniderman ’09 notes. “Even with something like ‘Fall,’ which seems straightforward, he was looking for ways to break the boundaries...
...shortcomings recurs throughout the collection. Williams’ reflections on his work more often than not lead him to a kind of melancholy. In “Apes,” he wonders, “Could I have passed through my own golden age and not even known I was there?” What is more, Williams acknowledges the wide breadth of his literary knowledge, but also hints that such erudition is not necessarily satisfying or comforting. In the same poem, he writes, “It occurred to me I’ve read enough...
...effort to comprehend Vu’s brightly-colored paintings of animal and human figures, the observer—trained in our hyperactive descriptive culture of tweets, texts, and Facebook updates—might be tempted to latch onto a single word—hallucinogenic, or even psychedelic. Yet, trying to capture Vu in one word does a disservice to her artistic complexity. As Vu’s thesis advisor, Visual and Environmental Studies (VES) department professor Andrew Beattie, says of the “miracle worlds” she paints: “They’re not cute...
...poem, he applies fertile Hopkins-like music to descriptions of dust and destruction, while in another he re-imagines a scene from “Crime and Punishment” in which Raskolnikov notices a “Jew on a Bridge.” But even as he takes on the styles or subjects of canonical writers such as these, Williams manages to consistently maintain the gentle, witty, and honest voice that he has spent a lifetime crafting...
...much of his work, as in his poems “Brain” and “Apes,” he also tries out more chiseled, succinct forms in poems such as “Vertigo” and “Rats.” Even as he displays his virtuosity as a writer, however, Williams remains humble and unassuming, calling himself at one point “a long-faced, white-haired ape with a book, still turning the page...