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...audience of more than 300 heard Adrienne C. Rich '51 present five poems form her latest volume and one yet to be published poem at the science Center yesterday afternoon...
...first half of her 45 minute presentation, Rich read poems form her latest book, the fact of a Door frame: Poems Selected and new 1950-1984. The 20-minute-long poem, "contradictions: Tracking poems" concluded the reading...
...centaur--a splendid hybrid with the scholarly countenance of literary criticism and the powerful headquarters of a good novel. Such crossbreeding of genres is not mythical or even uncommon in 20th century literature--take Nabokov's career, for example, which includes a novel in the guise of an annotated poem. Pale Fire, and a literary biography that's also a comic masterpiece. Nikolai Gogol. What makes Julian Barnes's achievement so remarkable, however, is the sheer lack of artifice and pyrotechnics involved...
Although unpleasing is appearance, the cockroach once inspired a poem from post-modern novelist Christopher Morely...
Alpert sometimes uses "The Cockroach Combat Manual", where Morely's poem was found, for reference, This humorous 180-page paperback cities that cockroach fossils date back 350 million years, But, since no North American have been found, that orgin here is unclear, says Alpert...