Word: hellishly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...toward the hills. I looked and felt sick Beautiful. There was fire on three sides with only the stretch straight down to the on can still clear. A row of homes on the beach were ablaze and the towering flames reflecting off the water had given the ocean a hellish glow. A blanket of putrid smoke obscured the moon, but the roaring inferno and glaring searchlights of the firefighters lit the coast five miles away. I knew that when the fire finally went out. It would leave a great scorched scar across the landscape...
Prisons effect punishment, of course. But the punishment provided by the roughly 800 U.S. prisons ranges from the purgatorial to the hellish. In a well-designed, progressive place like Michigan's Huron Valley Men's Facility, a five-year term is with luck just that: five years of life terribly circumscribed, with all but a few personal choices and pleasures denied. But in many other prisons, implicit in the same nominal term are five years of extortion and knives; bodies grabbed and ransacked; a sour, filthy cell shared for most of a day with a hothead who wouldn't mind...
...Monderer does more than any other one element to give Lachow's spaces their sinuous magic. Rimming a long swing that sweeps a child in and out of view, shining up through two rectangular-grills to denote barracks for Woyzeck and a comrade. Monderer's lights and shadows and hellish pink sunsets need no narrative to make them shocking. Now and then they steal the center of attention completely, and Woyzeck becomes a story told entirely in light, without words, an aural equivalent of the children's show Laserium. Words here do not tell, they sigh and flicker...
WHICH IS NOT TO SAY the prose poems lack structure. The adjectives are often extravagant--"hilarious and hellish little boys," he writes in "Old Bud"--but they serve to inject the poet's perspective into what is initially a third-person description. And while some of Wright's speech-like rhetorical devices might water down a poem, they add vigor to the paragraph forms. The packing together of lyrical sounds--as well as the repetition of words--creates a strong sense of unity in poems like "In Gallipoli...
...weeks ago, Harvard traveled to hellish Lynah Rink in Ithaca and emerged tattered and scarred but riding high after a 5-4 overtime win, the icemen's first victory in that western province since...