Word: poem
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...poem called "The Lupens," Heaney celebrated the beauty of nature, calling the flowers "dormant sentries of beyond beyondness...
...situation as well? People waiting for a Delta flight may long for some existential couplet like, "Why is it I always feel desperately lonely/When agents announce, 'This is preboarding only'?" Motorists waiting in the vehicle-inspection line who find The Raven enjoyable enough around Halloween may actually prefer a poem such as Contemplations on the Expatriate Life...
Marnie A. Friedman '99 read her poem "When the World Turns Upside Down," and Julie B. Geller '97 played the guitar and sang "Peace Dreams," which she composed last year after Rabin's death...
Taziona G. Chaponda '97 read an original poem about his native Malawi, titled "Drama at Lunzu...
Kinnell's spirituality is conveyed in a designedly accessible package. His poems, generally, are rhapsodic monologues, which seem carelessly laid out on the page, but take on a vivid energy when he reads them. On Tuesday night, the audience clearly loved him and them, responding with exclamations and applause at all the right moments. And, as with Hall, some of his poems verge on comedy; a real crowd-pleaser on Tuesday was "The Deconstruction of Emily Dickinson," in which the poet imagines telling off a pompous, Derridaspouting professor. It's a clear set-up with an easy pay-off; Kinnell...