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...poetry editor, over her release of previously unpublished poetry by Elizabeth Bishop, calling the manner of Quinn’s editing and publication “reprehensible.” According to The New York Times, Vendler’s scathing review of “Edgar Allan Poe & The Juke-Box: Uncollected Poems, Drafts and Fragments” in the April 3 issue of The New Republic marks a “literary clash of titans.” “The real poems will outlast these, their maimed and stunted siblings,” Vendler wrote about...
...WHAT DO I CALL YOU? E.L.? Well, my first name is Edgar. My father liked [Edgar Allan] Poe's work very much. He liked a lot of bad writers. But Poe is our greatest bad writer, so that's my consolation...
...several of his pen names; of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; in England's West Country. His thrillers, notably The Eiger Sanction, which became a 1975 film starring Clint Eastwood, were translated into more than a dozen languages and prompted comparisons to such critically esteemed storytellers as Edgar Allan Poe and Chaucer...
...movement knew who would replace Estrada (he had narrowly avoided being removed from office for alleged corruption by an impeachment trial): Arroyo, his Vice President, who had been elected separately. The current President might be in serious jeopardy if her challenger in last year's election, movie star Fernando Poe Jr., were around to say he had been robbed of victory. But Poe died of a stroke in December. No other political figure has come forward to rally the people...
...chief threat to Arroyo, however, comes from her political opposition, which includes parties that currently share power along with influential individuals out in the cold: Estrada's allies; Poe's supporters; the Marcos family; and even Arroyo's former Executive Secretary Renato de Villa, a onetime armed forces Chief of Staff and Defense Secretary who last week called for a "truth commission" to be set up to investigate the so-called Gloriagate tape. A lot of them don't want to wait for the next presidential election, due in 2010, for a shot at power. Their main goal...