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...film. Fortunately, he is helped in this struggle by Lauren Bell (played by Sonja Sohn, also a novice at film). A prison English teacher and poet herself, Laruen hears Ray perform while in jail, in a remarkable scene where he averts a gang fight by performing a poem he wrote which challenges the direction of their aggression towards each other. Once out on bail, Ray seeks her out, and they develop a relationship which, although slightly stretching the notion of love at first sight, plays a pivotal role in the developing of Ray into a man of responsibility...
Kane, an Eskimo from Anchorage, Ak., read a poem by the noted Native American poet Sherman Alexie, titled "Imagining the Reservation...
Omolara O. Fatiregun '00 whose emotional reading of her original poem "Persevere" thrilled the audience, said she was pleased with the event because "it was a good reflection of Harvard's student population...
...performance was exceptional; Koch hasmastered the art of bringing out the subtleties oftone and changes of mood in a poem withoutoverdramatizing it, remaining respectful to thepoem without making it monotonous. Particularlyeffective was the poem "Straits," which was alsothe best poem he read, shifting rapidly betweenscenes of political revolution, literary history,sixteenth-century maritime exploration, musicalperformance, conversation about bankers andphilosophical abstractions about love. Kochcaptured each shift with subtle variations of thepitch and intensity of his voice, and brought theelements together at the conclusion of the poemwith great lyrical skill. His subtle intensitymade the line "Do you remember the idea ofrevolution?" ominous...
...tendency to fall into endless strings ofparallel declarative statements, such as in "OneTrain Can Hide Another," where he cycles throughdozens of variations of the title's formula, "oneX can hide another"; it's easy to see how he canwork so well with children, handing outassignments such as "a poem in which every firstline begins with 'I wish..."--but the readingitself was never disappointing. Koch was charming,and funny; even when his work became homiletic, orsubstituted a joke for real development, he kepthis audience thoughtful, alert and entertained...