Word: humanation
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People are conspicuously absent from Lehyt’s pieces. The box clearly represents the product of Lehyt’s own man-hours, but it is not the human effort that is emphasized. The piece is not about the laborers; it is about the concept of labor itself. The people are buried in the conceptual framework of Lehyt’s box. They are far from the fore...
...adorned by costume designer Meryl F. Natow ’13 in hard hats and flannel shirts—play in raised cubicles. The small space does not inhibit the actors, but instead allows them to interact closely with the audience, making their characters seem all the more human and believable...
Mezzogiorno’s performance is enhanced exponentially by the powerful imagery of determination that accompanies her progressively bitter outlook on life. As she is seated in front of the daunting board of psychologists, Ida removes the human skull from the doctor’s desk to let them know that she is not swayed by the danger of her demise and will not be intimidated. Her obsession transforms into a desire for retribution when she realizes Mussolini has long since left her behind in light of his political successes, many of which she helped him achieve early...
...decorations from the National Book Award to the Pulitzer Prize—from the past few decades. The book gathers Hass’s first five collections of poetry—“Field Guides,” “Praise,” “Human Wishes,” “Sun Under Wood,” and “Time and Materials,” and also includes a modest 40-page collection of brand new poems...
When he details the mechanisms of the natural world, Hass attempts to draw connections between nature and the world of human emotion. In the poem “Variations on a Passage in Edward Abbey” Hass opens by precisely describing the formation of a dune: “twenty to twenty-five degrees from the horizontal. On the leeward side / the slope is much steeper, usually about thirty-four degrees...