Word: poet
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Language and metaphor dominate Winterson's writing, which includes such well-received novels as Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, Sexing the Cherry and Written on the Body. Her storytelling, however, gets lost in tales that at times seem written by a poet forced that to write fiction. Revealingly her most stunning piece is titled "The poetics of Sex." In it says of her lover: "How she fats me. She plumps me, pats me, squeezes and feeds me. Feed me up with lust till I'm as fat as she is." Such language, with its musicality and carefree rhymes reads...
...poetry readers at the magazine's kick-off function included Edwards, Silva and noted poet Joaquim-Francisco Coelho, Smith professor of language and literature...
...impossible: merely the forgotten truth. Poet Joan Murray, in her epic poem Queen of the Mist, details the sad life and short fame of Annie Taylor, an elderly and utterly destitute school teacher living at the turn of the century who devised and executed what seemed the perfect plan for money and fame. After building with her thin hands a barrel to enclose her body like a womb and shelter her from her fall over the raging ledge of water, Annie Taylor subsequently became the first person in history to propel herself down the length of Niagara Falls...
...poetry readers at the magazine's kick-off function included Edwards, Silva and noted poet Joaquim-Francisco Coelho, Smith professor of language and literature...
DiMaio described the way in which immigrant authors have collaborated with native Italians to combine their cultures through literature. She quoted the Cameroonian-Italian poet Ndjock Ngana on the subject of combining cultures...