Word: poem
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Maybe that was a mistake. In a poem, Robert Lowell wrote, "My eyes have seen what my hand did." Does the public have a right, even a duty, to watch its executions, to see exactly what its hand has done? What would be the effect...
...people's business, suppressing his darkest rages and heeding a back-street seeress who purports to be 322 years old. He is at once dignified and absurd, wrongheaded and admirable. It is such affectionate ambivalence toward all the characters that makes Wilson's play a vivid and uplifting tone poem and never a mere polemic. W.A.H.III
Tikaram worked on "Elephant" as a fun song. "I approached it as a fun beat poem and tried to build up a picture of sounds that were not on your usual instrumental sounds--more like animal sounds," said Tikaram of her song, which pulsates with the slow ambling beat of an elephant's walk and the soaring, exquisite melody that is evinced on "You Make The Whole World Cry" as well...
...film about Emily Dickinson. I did a documentary on a Keats poem, and I learned how to use poetry in film...
...latest graffiti appeared on poems signed "Grady H. Hendrix" and "Michael Penn." Penn is the name of a songwriter and the poem might be lyrics from one of his songs, said Constance I. Chang '93, AAA copresident...