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That’s Ovid’s “Metamorphoses,” of course; a mock-epic, 15-part poem that contains every major mythological story of antiquity. Ten of these stories have been adapted to the stage by playwright Mary Zimmerman and produced at Harvard by Allison B. Kline ’09, Julia K. Lindpaintner ’09, and Maria-Ilinca Radulian ’10. In the capable hands of visiting director Carmel O’Reilly, last Friday’s opening performance was sometimes spellbinding, sometimes frustrating, and sometimes both...
...words, the closing lines of a poem Samuel Johnson composed in 1747 to commemorate the opening of the Drury Lane Theatre in London, were applicable to the “pomp of show” of the NCT’s opening. But they may also fit with a prevalent theme in her new tenure: A bid to rescue the “charms of Sound” and “scenic Virtue...
Reading “Gulf Music” is an active exercise of introspection and observation of the modern world. In his first book of poetry since 2000, Robert Pinsky confronts global chaos and uncertainty while examining longstanding philosophical questions involving everything from memory to the mundane. His skeletal poems skillfully tie together the past and the present, exploring the capacity of collective memory and selective forgetting while leaving ample room for readers to reach their own conclusions about human suffering and contemporary existence. Pinsky divides “Gulf Music” into three sections. The first poems, which...
...Baghdad Blues is his latest homage to the country's traumatized capital, though this discomfiting collection of poems is much less political than the film. You won't find the expected vilification of fiends like Saddam and Chemical Ali. In a parenthetical note to "A Prisoner's Song," Antoon explains that the poem's title refers to POWs on both sides of the Iran-Iraq war. But besides this and one sardonic, flippant reference to U.N. resolutions in "A Prism; Wet With Wars" - the collection's puffed-up opener, which is swollen with images of "imminent wreckage" - there...
...perfect combination: photography is the most democratic of art forms, and Time has always been about explaining America to ourselves. "I contain multitudes," Walt Whitman boasted, and so does this book: a multitude of ideas, people, places, disasters and dreams. "The United States," Whitman wrote, "is essentially the greatest poem." We just combined that poetry with pictures...