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Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences A. Michael Spence will respond to the public officials' speeches, Jeffrey Rosen '86 will deliver a short undergraduate oration, and Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory Seamus Heaney, the noted poet, will read a poem he composed for the anniversary celebration...
...stuff--a poetry reading. Although I had heard a great deal of praise for the reading poet, described to me as the "darling of the English Department," I did have some misgivings. The collection of works from which he was to read had been composed in his bathroom, "one poem per sitting," and was titled "Grunts." Nevertheless, I was determined to keep an open mind...
...first poem is a political yet non-partisan piece I've appropriately titled `O Nicaragua...
...think I realized my tragic error somewhere among this tenured lunatic's aforementioned and subsequent rantings. You're wrong. I realized it after he finished his last poem--something about watching his cat eat a slug--and the people around me gave him a standing ovation...
Genet spent most of his 20s in jail on charges of theft, prostitution and related crimes. There, on strips of brown wrapping paper, he composed a long poem about a homosexual murderer, then a novel about a male prostitute, Our Lady of the Flowers (1943). Scandalized, the eminent critic Paul Valery declared, "This must be burned." Others strongly disagreed. In 1948, when Genet faced a life term as a repeat offender, Sartre, Andre Gide, Paul Claudel, Jean Cocteau and other literati circulated a petition protesting the sentence. It won Genet a presidential pardon...