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According to University spokesperson Joe Wrinn, Heaney will recite a previously unpublished poem...
...like the modern ceramics or blown-glass pieces that are so widely accepted as having the same artistic value as paintings. They hold water. Franck was originally attracted to pottery because she felt that a well-made piece could evoke the same emotions and thoughts as a well-written poem. Do these small vessels evoke poetry in the same way that a Kandinsky evokes music? Not exactly, but they are beautiful, and far more useful than a painting for holding flowers...
...Robert Frost wrote a poem called "Out, Out -" in which a boy using a buzz saw to cut stove wood is momentarily careless and cuts his own hand off, and then dies of shock. The others in the farmyard are stunned. But Frost ends with an interesting chill: "And they, since they/Were not the one dead, turned to their affairs...
...poem dealt, in part, with his experiences as a professor at Harvard...
Heaney paused mid-verse to explain the significance of one of the poem's images: a wooden O symbolizing Sanders Theatre...