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...Carl Sandburg, “Chicago”—Carl Sandburg’s 1916 poem remains the most vibrant and moving tribute to the City of the Big Shoulders: “Come and show me another city with lifted head singing so proud to be alive and coarse and strong and cunning, [bitches].” Well said, Carl. Well said...
...Gevisser's treatment, Mbeki emerges as a tragic figure. The book's title refers to a Langston Hughes poem that Mbeki, warning of growing popular anger at persistent inequalities in postapartheid South Africa, quoted before Parliament in 1998: "What happens to a dream deferred? It explodes." But Mbeki has been unable to bridge the divide, and that failure has bolstered support for the earthy populist Zuma...
...always been interested. My first book of poetry includes a poem in which my grandfather appears and encourages me to write poetry...
...took it on as a challenge.RR: Did you change anything up to try to make it more acceptable?MW: No, nothing. I didn’t change one word. I learned that everything in the play is important. It’s like a poem, every word is important.RR: You didn’t want to make the Yale students uglier or less articulate or anything like that?MW: No, because it speaks for itself. I didn’t want to have stereotypes and clichés because that’s just lame. I could have advertised this...
...audience, however, appeared to disagree. At the event’s end, when Bhabha asked the crowd if they would like to ask a last question or hear Vendler read a short poem, audience members shouted, “read a poem...