Word: poem
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Several of the poems in the third section of The Look of Things deal with Catholicism. Some, like "The Christological Year," are devout, while a poem like "Immaculate Mary Breathes the Air We Breathe" seems more satirical. How do you see your Catholicism...
Patrick Sylvain, a Haitian-born poet who now teaches in Cambridge, read six selected poems from his work. Among the poems were "Doobop," a tribute to the jazz career of Miles Davis; "Pawol Rasemblemant," a poem in Creole about the Haitian revolution; and "Crucifix," a description of a journalist's torture by the military regime. Manuel St. Victor '95 also recited a short, humorous poem about a failed courtship...
...City and the 1990s through the prism of a new book called Walt Whitman's America (Knopf). Here, David S. Reynolds, professor of American Literature and American Studies at New York City's Baruch College, splendidly examines the culture that formed the greatest American poet and the greatest American poem, Leaves of Grass, which was first published in 1855. Although Reynolds does not dwell on them, the similarities between the 1850s and the 1990s are spooky sometimes, the preoccupations of the two periods almost interchangeable...
Armed with nine different pens, including gold and silver in addition to basic black, the poet autographed his latest book Journals: Mid-Fifties 1954-1958, as well as earlier collections, posters, admirers' poetry notebooks and even a Bridgewater College student's paper on Ginsberg's famous poem "Howl...
...poet decorated all his autographs with a mysterious "AH" enclosed in a circle, symbolizing a Japanese Zen one-syllable summary of afterlifeappreciation. He even drew sunflowers reminiscentof his poem "Sunflower Sutra" for some lucky fans...