Word: poem
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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From the age of eight, when her first poem was printed in the Boston Herald, Plath began awaiting the mailman with baited breath, her talent perpetually on trial. Her persistence through 10 years of New Yorker rejection slips was finally rewarded. Soon after accepting two poems, the New Yorker offered her a first-reading contract...
...never paralyzed; she is always prepared, whether playing a scene or carrying a film. The ferocious focus has always been there. When she was 13, she directed a short "tone poem," Hands of Time, a series of shots of hands that depict life from cradle to old age: a baby, a couple getting married, a man cocking a rifle, a man's hand on a pregnant woman's stomach, and an old man holding hands with a little kid. In one day, she had to write the treatment for it, select the cast, direct the crew, and decide...
...while the Soviets refused to acknowledge the genocide on their soil, the massacre was a terrifying addition to the history of the Holocaust as recognized by the West. In 1961, Soviet poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko wrote a poem to memorialize those who died at Babi Yar. Family members of the victims kept their pictures, and last week they were finally able to mourn at the grave of their relatives...
...From the poem by Yevgeny Yevtushenko
...work is an exception to this omission. His Travelling at Mount Tianhua, a landscape that resembles a Lan Meng or a Lan Yin, is embedded with a reflective political statement, expressed in the inscription. Jisheng, exiled for political dissidence, has inscribed his lonely, cloudy seascape with a sad, romantic poem, translated as follows...