Word: poem
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...third piece, the Schickalslied (Song of Destiny), the orchestra rejoined the chorus on a very crowded stage. The text of this piece is taken from a poem Friedrich Holderlin adapted from his own novel Hyperion. The poem glows in the first few stanzas, meditating quietly on the peace of heaven but shifts abruptly to stormy despair in describing "suffering mortals" being swept hopelessly from place to place...
...controversy led to a trial that centered on Ginsberg's description of sodomy in the epic poem...
...works less explicitly linked to narrative, like Jason Rhoades' dense installation, create spectacular mental images of their creators. These implied personas may or may not be contiguous with the artists themselves, just as we might recognize the space between the author and narrator of a novel or poem. Rhoades' Uno Momento, for example, calls to mind a funky urban hipster who empties out his over-filled garage to host a dance party complete with pulsing music and flashing lights. In Chris Burden's Pizza City, a room filled with tables supporting a bizarre urban sprawl suggests an overzealous collector...
...Most of my poems are usually inspired by conversations," she says. "Someone may say one word or one sentence that just sparks a whole poem. I write about it to say how I am feeling and how I am thinking as best...
...example, Brown recalls the origin of "Georgia," a poem from her recent show. The poem explores a young man's struggle to reconcile his love for his mother with his hatred for the slave master who raped his grandmother, she says...