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After Paulin was invited in November, Lecturer in Literature Rita Goldberg e-mailed her students, encouraging them to abstain from attending the poet??s talk...
Many of the songs, including “Paratrooper” and the opening “Oh Come Down,” are quiet ballads featuring acoustic guitar and occasionally drums. Typical McCaughan, the lyrics are infused with a poet??s sense for words and at the same time exquisite and emotional. In “Don’t Disappear,” McCaughan sings softly and longingly: “And in this dream we were terribly tall, wobbly and weak / And I was afraid we would fall / Impaled on dull silver mass of antennae...
...mainstream in any sense. At once the most impressive and the most alienating feature of the album is Beans’ lyrics, which are undeniably virtuosic but delivered in stuttering, robot-like fashion. They’re highly poetic—Beans has actually been published as a poet??but the lyrics sound too conscious of their own literacy, which robs the music of much of its emotional impact. He often sounds like he’s rushing to get his words out against the rhythm of the music, making for a jarring listen...
Much discussion of poetry recently has centered on the poet??s relationship to national politics, especially in the wake of the “Voices of America” controversy, which resulted after a poetry reading at the White House was cancelled when performers revealed plans to use the program as a forum to protest the war in Iraq...
...poet??s voice could come to life with the kind of technology just coming into existence at that time,” he says. “[Packard] was a pioneer in speaking up for this kind of fieldwork...