Word: poem
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...times, this broad canvas tends to obscure the nuances of O'Hara's art. Gooch provides a detailed account of the party, argument or museum exhibit which inspired a particular poem, but usually offers little analysis of the aesthetic or linguistic concerns the poem explores. In some ways, this approach befits a poet who compared his poems to unmade telephone calls, but the overall effect sometimes privileges O'Hara's role as social butterfly over that of poet...
...BIMBO SHRINEHEADS--A Rape Poem...
April last saw Tyler six months ago, when the court ruled he could visit only if she were away. She wrote a poem, called "A Child in the Middle," which includes the lines, "The child we see will suffer forever/ Because of the bonds they force him to sever/ Today we pray that God is with us/ And corrects this wrong and painful injustice." Yet even as she speaks of injustice, April struggles with self-imposed guilt: "I have blamed myself for a long time. A part of me knows I'm not guilty; another part feels...
...Twiggs have moved down to Florida to be near Kimberly. Regina wrote an open poem to her: "Precious baby in our arms, we never shared your baby charms; denied the right to love us then, perhaps you'll love us someday when." "Parents are frequently hurt by their kids," says John Blakely, the Twiggs' attorney, "but it's not their job to back down...
...river has its romance. Explorers once thought it could provide a quick path to China. Walt Whitman said the Mediterranean was its only rival in grandeur. T.S. Eliot, who was born in St. Louis, was surely inspired by the Mississippi when he referred to a river in his poem The Dry Salvages as "a big strong brown god." But poetry isn't appropriate at times like these. "You can't say the river is very charitable," says a tract attributed to Mark Twain, perhaps the Mississippi's most famous observer. "Except for the fact that the streets are quiet . . ., there...