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...suspended in the air”So Julia Hartwig’s “In Praise of the Unfinished” concludes, leaving her readers suspended in their own emotions. And yet this momentary captivity is liberating: while emotionally entangled, we achieve intellectual freedom by virtue of the poems. We continue on in our incomplete lives armed with the completing questions. Even at 85, Hartwig still discovers new mysteries of life to explore. “Unfinished,” an anthology of her selected poems, is the first English publication from Hartwig, a Polish poet best known...
...Being and Nothingness.” Another character’s play combines scenes of rape with a masturbation contest (judged in three categories: thickness, length, “and, most importantly, distance covered by semen”) between the ambassadors of three nations. A third character writes a poem called “Concentration Camp” that, we’re told, “is the humorous and at times touching story of [his] life as a child, between the ages of five and ten, in a middle-class neighborhood of Caracas.”The blackness...
...complex production by the Vermont-based Bread and Puppet Theater, featuring both masked and unmasked actors, elaborate props, and the occasional puppet. It’s a modern adaptation of Dante’s “The Divine Comedy,” a medieval epic poem that detailed the author’s view of the Christian afterlife.“The Divine Reality Comedy” is perhaps best described as a proselytizing Polyphonic Spree meets political theater. As intriguing as that sounds, the production was an interminable hour and a half of paper-thin commentary...
...History of Valentine’s Day” presentation yesterday evening in Winthrop House. Surprisingly, neither of the two St. Valentines had any connection to romance, according to Keliher. Valentine’s Day became associated with love some eleven centuries after the saint had died in a poem by Geoffrey Chaucer. “Chaucer wrote the first poem in English celebrating Valentine’s Day and is the earliest writer we know of to associate the day with love and romance,” said English professor Nicholas J. Watson, who teaches a freshman seminar...
With all the variations and the specific nature of people's love-poem searches, it appears that the Internet searcher is unwilling to settle for a less-than-perfect quote. But with all that effort, and considering the potential reaction of your Valentine to a "gangsta" or a "love-hate" poem, perhaps a simple "I love you, happy Valentine's Day" would be a better alternative...