Word: poems
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...collection The World's Wife, notable for having every poem written in the voice of a wife of a great historical figure, was the first to bring her mass appeal...
...felt, in the event of a royal wedding, inspired to write about people coming together in marriage or civil partnership, I would just be grateful to have an idea for the poem. And if I didn't, I'd ignore it." -Making clear that she won't write about every Royal event that takes place on her watch. (BBC Woman's Hour...
...like to think that I'm a sort of poet for our times. My shout. Know what I mean?" -A line from her 1990 poem Poet for our Times...
...Jarmusch begins his film The Limits of Control, the tale of a hitman who doesn't seem to hit, with a quote from the first two lines of Arthur Rimbaud's poem "The Drunken Boat." Some may see this as an alert to pretensions ahead, although my own interpretation was that it serves as a sort of helpful mini-review...
...took her, how and why, is all part of the story told in two new books this spring. Vanished Smile: The Mysterious Theft of Mona Lisa by R.A. Scotti (Knopf; 239 pages) sticks closely to the case and relates it luxuriously. In places it reads like a prose poem with narrative gallop. The Crimes of Paris: A True Story of Murder, Theft, and Detection by Dorothy and Thomas Hoobler (Little, Brown; 376 pages) embeds the theft within more workmanlike prose and the larger story of how Paris police were struggling in the early 20th century against a world of gangsters...