Word: poetes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Connor has said that she doubted "whether the texture of Southern life" is more inclined to the grotesque. After reading about some of the people Cohen, a Dallas native, meets, I began to doubt O'Connor's wisdom. We get a sample of graffiti "art" from a bad poet named Dirk. We get a someone named Dale's take on the AIDS epidemic, "Basically, its a combination of a virus from a goat and a cow that creates the HIV virus." We get Suzanne, a Vaiden, Mississippi native, speaking on impending apocalypse: "I haven't seen any signs...
Walcott, the Nobel-winning West Indian poet whose 8,000-line Omeros hijacked Homer to the Caribbean, here packs the major events of the Odyssey into three brisk hours and still has room for his voluptuous metaphor making and severe truth telling ("What are men? Children who doubt"). After a slow start, in which stilted heroic attitudes virtually define Bad Regional Theater, Odysseus appears, in the burly, assured person of Casey Biggs, and the play takes off. Mythology can be fun when Circe is a sassy dominatrix, the Sirens are mermaids out of a Bette Midler show, and Helen...
...Iraqi government newspaper recently published a poem addressed to Madeleine Albright, the U.S.'s feisty ambassador to the U.N. It is by Ghazi Al-Tha'i, described as "a famous poet...
Another Harvard professor said that a good poet does not necessarily make a good teacher...
...prize Harvard actually came closest to this year, the Nobel for literature, is the one it has never won. Boylston Professor of Rhetoric Seamus Heaney, a poet, was considered a top contender for the award...