Word: poet
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hold; mere anarchy is loosed upon the world." It was the century's earliest epitaph, and is still perhaps its most powerful one. And Yeats had yet to conjure with the metaphors of modern science--the theory of relativity; the uncertainty principle; the looming figure of Freud, pseudo-scientific poet of our subjectivity--let alone with Fascism and Stalinism. Or, possibly most addling to a poet, the rise of industrialized mass culture...
...sesquicentennial of Goethe's birth, 250 illuminated busts of the German poet were lined up in a meadow in downtown Weimar. Fans could buy stockings imprinted with his lyrics or a vibrator bearing his likeness. An exhibition of his drawings was hung at Buchenwald...
This Thursday, the Advocate will sponsor a reading with Richard Wilbur, a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner and former poet laureate. Wilbur will speak at Hilles Library...
America's poet of the piano plays 15 of Mendelssohn's Lieder ohne Worte (literally, Songs Without Words), plus eight Bach-Busoni and Schubert-Liszt transcriptions. The hand injury that threatened to sideline Perahia only a few short years ago is now nothing but a fast-fading memory: the poise and lyricism of the exquisite playing heard on this meltingly beautiful CD are worthy of comparison with any of the century's greatest pianists. His tone is warm and inviting, his interpretations quietly romantic. Vladimir Horowitz--who once gave Perahia a few pointers--would have reveled in the results...
...Hulsey is deadly serious about her work. She feels that, because the experience of reading is affected by what the page looks like, the process of printing a book is deeply collaborative. The poet's choices and the printer's choices run across a hazy boundary, each fundamentally changing the finished product. Hollister's choice of a stanza break is determined by Hulsey's choices of physical spacing...