Word: poet
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...little epic with a big brazen title, Happiness traces the discontents of three sisters--miserable Joy (Jane Adams); pert Trish, the pedophile's wife (Cynthia Stevenson); and best-selling poet Helen (Lara Flynn Boyle)--their beaux and parents (Louise Lasser, Ben Gazzara). The prime setting is New Jersey, which Helen describes as "a state of irony." The whole film could be said to live there--a place where vile acts rub up against a Mantovani rendition of You Light Up My Life...
...time when acts like 'N Sync and Backstreet Boys cavort in the upper reaches of the charts like kids atop a treehouse, a CD such as Taming the Tiger, whose title song was inspired by 18th century poet William Blake, is a tough sell--unless you're selling it to fans of 18th century English poetry. But Joni will be Joni when the trends have trended out. To paraphrase Blake, she still burns bright...
...poet Kenneth Koch '48 arrived at Harvard on Tuesday without much fanfare. A few posters in the Yard, most of them already covered by ads for IOP functions and offers for cheap futons, publicized his lecture that afternoon at the Graduate School of Education (GSE); his evening reading at the Signet went, with the exception of a few notices sent to student email lists, almost entirely unpromoted. Somehow it did not seem to matter: his lecture at the GSE drew a large audience, perhaps a hundred people, and the small space for his reading at the Signet filled...
This kind of unnoticed popularity has long been the status quo for Koch, who, despite having published fifteen books of poems, several plays, two works of fiction and three very influential volumes on teaching poetry, despite his long-standing membership in the famous "New York School" of poets, and despite his decades-long association with many of the most significant names in American literature, has never been of great interest to the academic critical establishment. His new books, when they appear, are readily available and widely read, but they never seem to generate much critical dialogue, to the point that...
...Well," he said finally. "I suppose Americanpoetry is right where it needs to be. I thinkAmerican poetry will be just fine." What acharming optimism--and whatever is true forAmerican poetry, it seems lucky to think that Kochmight just as well have been speaking for himself.Courtesy of KnopfOLD SCHOOL: Teacher-Poet KennethKoch...