Word: pasts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...stubbornness -foolish, willful and glorious-when they were caught between the rock and the hard place. We could not forget Wayne if we tried. Those images of a big man etched against the big Western sky were part of the experience of growing up in America in the past half-century...
...already cleared the first two hurdles facing all beginning poets: having something to say and saying it well. Ullman stakes a claim on the borderline between the real and the imagined. Her people, mostly women waiting for something or someone, are mercurial consciousnesses flowing smoothly from past to future or recording temperatures that have not yet occurred. One woman preens in a room, anticipating the man who is to meet her, smiling at herself as he might. Conclusion is anticlimax...
...sense of loss but also the wonder that loss antedates. Oddly, the memory dodges bathos and becomes elegiac. A grown man retraces the field where he once hacked away at milkweed plants, and sees "a froth of seeds" from the plants' descendants drifting by. Another sojourner in the past thinks of Detroit (where Levine, 51, was born), and then of snow; he translates it into the tears of souls lost and gone to heaven: and given their choice chose then to return to earth, to lay their great pale cheek against the burning cheek of earth and say, There...
This handsome collection of works old and new is a proper retrospective for a writer who has become, in the past 25 years, one of the most accessible of all living .U.S. poets. Her works have appeared nearly everywhere, from the quarterlies and The New Yorker to the New York Times and the Chicago Tribune Magazine. Such popularity does not come free. At her least strenuous, Swenson picks up quotidian chatter and reproduces...
...hole cast. There are some problems inherent in the play. Peter Nichols (Joe Egg, The National Health) has really scrambled three plays here- a sequel to Oh! What a Lovely War, a sequel to The Boys in the Band and an indigenous British product of the past quarter-century that might be called Britannia Rues the Waves. This is a form of retroactive remorse for colonialist sins that one no longer possesses the power to commit. If Maggie Thatcher succeeds in turning England around, she may sound taps for a generation of British playwrights...