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...stuff a banana with rabbit, and someone will announce that in the next half-hour we'll talk about a new cure for Parkinson's disease..."plus, live from the plaza--Jewel!" That's history for you. That's Bruegel's Icarus, as Auden pointed out in his poem on the painting; sensational events mingle with the run-of-the-mill till you cannot discern the amazing from the amazing...
...most beautiful lines in English literature gets at this idea. It's from a poem by Samuel Johnson...
...been said that in America during the fractious 1850s, before the Civil War, Walt Whitman entertained the wistful, urgent conceit that his great poem "Leaves of Grass" might save the Union. It would show Americans that despite their divisions they were one great nation. Montaigne, almost three centuries earlier, worked a variation on the theme. Rising above dogma and abstraction, he would pursue the general human truth by studying himself - and such generalized self-knowledge, the recognition of their human selves, might relieve people of their inclination to kill one another for religious reasons...
...Fagin explains, "was speed. We were able to run an issue off over the course of a night, collate it, put the covers on, staple and distribute-instant publication." One of Fagin's greatest credits is publishing Ashbery's "The New Spirit," included in his Three Poems of 1972. Many see the landmark prose poem as responsible for introducing the form into modern poetry. Charles North, who also read at the Harvard reading, had his first book published by Fagin and insists that it was "the best poetry venture in my lifetime...
...mass-produced world, this delicate, handmade booklet is perfect for the poetically inclined. A small, tissue-and-calligraphy creation that you'll never find at Barnes and Noble. This ancient Irish poem about the friendship between a monk and his cat makes a unique, friendly and thoughtful gift...