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...usually nothing more than a publicist's bombast. Yet when Robert Wilson's I La Galigo premieres in Singapore on March 12, it will be literally true: the four-hour spectacle of song and dance, mantra and martial arts is based upon a classic of Indonesian literature, an epic poem almost unknown outside the archipelago until now. The poem, also called I La Galigo, survives in thousands of fragmentary manuscripts and was written in an archaic Indonesian language that maybe no more than 50 people today are able to understand. It runs to some 300,000 lines?roughly 20 times...
That’s right, the baseball team is back for its 144th year—older, even, than that one and only baseball poem “Casey at the Bat.” But hope, just like then, still “springs eternal...
...Power Out”, their debut album for indie label Beggars Group, frontwoman Verity Susman (classier) has contributed vocals in four different languages (classiest). And get this: the English words on “The Valleys” are from a Siegried Sassoon poem, while the German ones on “This Deed” are from The Gay Science—by Nietzsche...
Most people do not go to great lengths to be original on Valentine’s Day. Bouquets of flowers and boxes of chocolate are the standard purchases, though some people may add a personal touch in the form of a corny poem or handmade card. These gifts are time-honored tokens of love; buying such sweet products is an appropriate tradition for Valentine’s Day. But even if you spring for the usual gifts tomorrow, it is still important to think outside the box—and consider the origins of the chocolate inside...
...Grantland Rice, the dean of American sportswriters, wrote a poem entitled “Alumnus Football,” and from this poem the mother of all sports clichés was born...