Word: poetes
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...Harvard Square. 876-6837. "The Life and Times of Allen Ginsberg" at 4, 5:45, 7:30, 9:15 and Saturday matinee at 2:15 through Thursday, Mar. 10. This engaging and tender documentary portrays a view of the last fifty years through the penetrating eyes of the visionary poet and pacifist, Allen Ginsberg...
...Touch of the Poet. By Eugene O'Neill. Directed by Joe Dowling. Set in Boston during the last century, the play follows the career of a blustering Irish innkeeper forced to face the effect of his life illusions on his beloved family. American Repertory Theatre, 8 p.m. $18-$42. Call 547-8300 for tickets and more information...
This is Harvard, after all--where every eager applicant is ranked on a 1600-point scale, a first-year's self-esteem depends on his Expos grade and a senior's life revolves around her thesis evaluation. Grades, scores and marks assume mythical proportions: a student poet has even posted an ode to the SAT on the Lamont Poetry Board, bragging...
...novelist David Leavitt got from his publisher, Viking, last week. No more copies of Leavitt's controversial novel, While England Sleeps, will be printed or shipped until the author has made "minor revisions," said a Viking spokesperson. The move was in response to a lawsuit by the eminent British poet Stephen Spender, who claims that Leavitt has drawn too closely on his 1951 memoir, World Within World...
...remembrance of those days of liberation and excess segues into a recollection of the coming of AIDS. The men depict a landscape of fear, ignorance, and sorrow. Wayne Corbitt, a Black performance poet and play wright, begins to cry as he recalls the his lover's death of AIDS. It's a difficult moment, painful to watch, but one that demonstrates the extent to which the men in the documentary bared their souls for the camera...