Word: poem
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Bush had had an amazingly accurate premonition of his death, even as an ROTC student at Texas A. & M. "Have you thought of how you'd die?" he asked in a poem written before his 1966 graduation. His own answer...
...been expelled from the Soviet Writers' Union and threatened with exile from his country. The official press regularly denounces him; only last week the newspaper Sovietskaya Rossiya, in a poem that did not name Solzhenitsyn but was plainly aimed at him, charged that he "long ago defected with his soul...
When asked how he would like someday to be remembered. Auden leaned back, the cigarette smoke trailing upwards. "All you can say is that you try." he said. "If you write a poem, you try to make an object that will be permanent at hand...
...enjoys writing poetry. "Why else would anyone write poetry?" he asked. True, some poets do say they find writing painful: "While climbing a mountain, you can it's painful, but afterwards, in the long run, you say it's fun." When writing a poem he does not distinguish between form and content. "At any given moment, I have a certain subject in my mind which is preoccupying me," he said. "The subject looks for a form to incorporate it, and it looks for a type of form that it can incorporate. When the two meet-you have a poem...
...most prominent motif currently is the heart, an image loaded with visual and literary connotations. In its repetition of the image and its lyric use of warm, watery colors, Rome Hearts can be read as a kind of tone poem. Not surprisingly, perhaps, Dine has also published a volume of his poetry. Like his paintings, his poems are personal, full of discovery, the outpourings of an artist who seems to need to share his joy with the world. "I want to express myself with anything I can get my hands on," he says. "Whether it is words or shoes...