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Lang's epic poem of urban dystopia and class warfare set the standard for imagining the future-and how it might feel to be a part of it. Even now, in the age of CGI, his dark vision remains unsurpassed...
Aesop contends that calling rap a “poem on a beat ... is pretty valid,” and that the many parallels between the two forms are “not a coincidence.” But he also stresses that “overinterpretation happens a lot” when critics try to analyze his convoluted flow, probably because his work is “not as linear” as their preconceptions of rap allow. “You get used to it,” he sighs, with the seemingly unperturbed air of the superscrutinized...
Stefan A. Zebrowski-Rubin ’08 chimes in, “I don’t know what it will do but, I saw a banner add with a poem once and it made my day better...
...Kumin’s first poem for the class was—by her account—a “sappy, sentimental” sonnet that began with the verses...
...Winokur in 1925, the fourth child—and only daughter—of a South Philadelphia pawnbroker. The family lived in suburban Germantown; the hillside location of the Winokur family home was later immortalized in Kumin’s “Halfway,” the title poem of her 1961 anthology...