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...addition to selections from Falling Water, Koethe also read a new poem recently published in The New Republic...
Koethe read more poems from Falling Water in the class. "I really liked hearing him reading the poem "The Secret Amplitude," Nordell said...
...song, which translates to "The calm reflective surface who smiles" was taken from a Vietnamese poem. "I translated it into English so that the audience could get the meaning," Ho said...
Hughes' account of this shared history and Plath's ruinous effect on it may or may not be accurate--and only a fool would attempt to parse another person's marriage--but it makes a poor premise for poetry. Lyric poems draw their energy from an active voice discussing the life choices, good or bad, it has made. Hughes portrays himself as a fern in a hurricane beyond his control. He gives only one poem, Dreamers, to the woman who broke up his marriage to Plath. In it he writes: "The Fable she carried/ Requisitioned...
...veteran, this was an eclectic gathering. It included 87-year-old political scientist Samuel Beer, who on his first visit to the White House shook hands with a newly inaugurated Warren Harding and years later wrote speeches for F.D.R.; lapsed conservative Michael Lind, whose literary credits include an epic poem on the siege at the Alamo; Dan Yergin, an energy expert who has lately been extolling the virtues of the global economy; and Barbara Dafoe Whitehead, one of the first social scientists to identify the serious, long-term costs of divorce...