Word: poetes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...film shifts gears with the introduction of Neshe Yasin, a Turkish woman poet who delivers a poignant Proustian reverie on a village from her childhood called Peristerona. Yasin's recherche du temps perduis the most explicit instance of the film's obsession with the question of memory. All the film's participants are intent on memory, remembering what was lost and the crimes committed by both sides. The film implies that the future of Cyprus depends in part on whether people can move beyond the memory of crimes, injustices and mutual recriminations...
...second novel, "JR.") Other winners, announced last night, are: surgeon Sherwin B. Nuland's "How We Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapter," a meditation on death, in the nonfiction category; James Tate, a University of Massachusetts professor, won the poetry prize for, "Worshipful Company of Fletchers"; and poet Gwendolyn Brooks received the National Book Foundation Medal, a lifetime achievement award.Post your opinion on theSocietybulletin board...
...poet Adrienne Rich '51 has written of "the invisible violence of the institution of motherhood to mothers: the guilt, the powerless responsibility for human lives, the judgments and condemnations, the fear of her own power, the guilt, the guilt, the guilt...
...agronomists and economists turn lyrical over the continuing capacity of this nation to astound itself with the production of staples. "It is just truly remarkable that farmers could bounce back from the floods and replenish the coffers like this," says Keith Collins, the USDA's chief economist. The exuberant poet-farmer Michael Carey of Farragut, Iowa, says it this...
About 70 literature fans crowded into Adams House upper common room last night to hear Pulitzer prize-winning poet Galway Kinnell recite some of his favorite poetry...