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...Most Way Home," Kevin dedicated one poem to his father and one poem to his mother, and each had to do with their individual childhood experiences. Writing about a family is a complex issue--it raises questions of public and private, of distance and of love--and I ask Kevin whether or not his parents live his poetry. "I don't think it's a matter of like of don't like, but more that they are involved in it. They are engaged by it, and often surprised," he says. "they tell me things, stories about their childhood and stuff...
Wilson had considered a career in writing, butthat dream was quickly--but temporarily--dashedwhen he submitted a poem to the Advocate duringhis first year...
Maybe that was a mistake. In a poem, Robert Lowell wrote, "My eyes have seen what my hand did." Does the public have a right, even a duty, to watch its executions, to see exactly what its hand has done? What would be the effect...
...people's business, suppressing his darkest rages and heeding a back-street seeress who purports to be 322 years old. He is at once dignified and absurd, wrongheaded and admirable. It is such affectionate ambivalence toward all the characters that makes Wilson's play a vivid and uplifting tone poem and never a mere polemic. W.A.H.III
Tikaram worked on "Elephant" as a fun song. "I approached it as a fun beat poem and tried to build up a picture of sounds that were not on your usual instrumental sounds--more like animal sounds," said Tikaram of her song, which pulsates with the slow ambling beat of an elephant's walk and the soaring, exquisite melody that is evinced on "You Make The Whole World Cry" as well...