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...information center for the Children of God today is London. But Leader Moses David stays as elusive as Howard Hughes, making contact with the members only in his weekly epistles called "Mo Letters" and through what might be described as fundamentalist pornography. Berg's poem Mountin' Maid, for instance, is 300 lines of awful doggerel urging women to bare their breasts. Sample line: Can't we leave those summits bare Without all that underwear...
Donald Brown doesn't really cut the image of the Harvard filmmaker. A black Minnesotan from a small community, he decided in the ninth grade to make a movie based on Edgar Allen Poe's elegaic prose poem Ligeia. Since then he's made a number of films, including a feature called Negatives when he was a freshman here. But it's strange. He's no cinema pedant--far from it, and he doesn't major in Visual Studies. He likes Hitchcock, Mike Nichols, Woody Allen, Blow-up, nothing fancy. Nothing experimental or avant-garde for him. He makes full...
Miles Davis. A critic once wrote of W. H. Auden that he wrote great poetry because he was not afraid to write a bad poem. Miles Davis is not afraid of anything; his style has gone through more changes than Richard Nixon's story on Watergate and has held up incomparably better. Still one of the leading jazz trumpeters after a long career, Miles has spawned, through his sidemen, a host of fine jazz groups. His latest transformation is on display all this week. Through Sunday, February 17 at Paul's Mall. Call 267-1300 for information...
This room is slightly more gimmicky than Strand's; it leads to another place in the same manner Alice's lookingglass does. And this "other" world is never complete in any of Orr's poems because he uses a number of recurring symbols, which only become complete over a series of poems. Even common phrases like "threading" one's way through trees takes on a new meaning when, in another poem, a man's life is a "skull of red yarn/that unravels as he walks," and in still another poem, "behind you the dream burns the empty nests,/and before...
...world there are no redeeming experiences, with one exception, death. There is a stoicism here, an unexplainable will to live. Only her last poem, "New Crops for a Free Man," hints vaguely of some kind of earthly salvation...