Word: faulknerisms
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...glandular giant with the guts of three mice." Once he provoked a fight in a hotel dining room with William Saroyan, and when the poet Wallace Stevens, 20 years his senior, visited him on Key West, he left with a rather mysterious black eye. All things being equal, William Faulkner got off lightly: he was merely nicknamed "Old Corndrinking Mellifluous...
...things turn out, Horace dwindles into one of the author's plot devices. He kills a man and is hunted by a posse in a series of scenes that are not good Williams but bad Faulkner. This is disappointing, but perhaps not important. The counterfeit Faulkner fades, and Horace stays stingingly in the mind, along with much else from Williams' uneven but intriguing fourth novel...
...seminar, which meets at 9 p.m. on Thursday in Bertram Hall, will focus on "black humor as a modern mode of response to experience," Keeney said. Students in the seminar will read works by such writers as William Faulkner and Samuel Beckett. They also may discuss some of Kafka's writings...
...WILLIAM FAULKNER once remarked: "An artist is a creature driven by demons. He is completely amoral in that he will rob, borrow, beg or steal from anybody and everybody to get the work done. If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate; the 'Ode on a Grecian Urn' is worth any number of old ladies." It is an attitude shared by all who have discovered just how difficult it is to write one superlative poem and what bitter battles must be waged to keep poetry vital and relevant in an age when so much...
...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...