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...time to his family's publishing house and hopes to commit at least "a few thoughts" to paper. He can also feel confident that his years in the political vineyards will be royally rewarded, either with an earldom or by being dubbed a Knight of the Garter, or both...
...dedicated, for the most part, to a willful and unnecessary obscurity. A poet should only make demands on his reader for essential reasons, and he must offer something substantial for the time and energy that explication requires. Bob Grenier is a better translator than original poet. I prefer Doris Garter in the bath to Doris Garter exploring a religious cosmos. And Susan Rich surpasses other more galactic rumblings with a little poem (less disturbingly fastidious than her drawing) of an abandoned doll. Her subtle internal rhymings reveal a feeling for line that is also found in parts of Robert Dawson...
...elastic or flailing hands, is a familiar one to harried J.N.R. officials. Their lost-and-found warehouses bulge with an inventory that would do a department store proud: 1,800,000 items, including 25,000 wristwatches, 310,000 umbrellas, 180,000 books, 400,000 pieces of clothing, ranging from garter belts to greatcoats, four urns containing human ashes (prayed over daily by reverent warehouse employees), an electric motor, one pinball machine, false teeth, and several false eyeballs. Only 15% of the items are reclaimed. By auctioning the rest, and by pocketing unclaimed cash, the railways grossed...
...undeserving-comers. George I even made "petticoat peeresses" of his mistresses in order, as one peerage pundit noted, "to reward their merits in their respective departments and encourage the surrender of prudery in younger and handsomer subjects." In a preface to the new edition, Sir Anthony Wagner, who as Garter King of Arms is Britain's top working genealogist, concludes that, by Continental standards, the nobility in England has in fact "not existed since the Norman Conquest...
...Restoration England, a robustious culture surrounded the pious fortress of the church like a red satin garter on a maiden's thigh. Trapped inside the fortress all day, church composers slipped out at night to meet in taverns where, in naughty laughter, they celebrated secular gaiety by composing bawdy songs to one another. Now, three young singers who call themselves "The Catch Club" are running through a lighthearted repertory of the old songs, proving nicely that spicy jokes are almost ageless...