Word: poetes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...commitment were what enabled , him to write what little he did (four volumes in 40 years), just as the fate of the mockingly ironic outsider was his persistent subject. As he put it, "Deprivation is for me what daffodils were for Wordsworth." Characteristically, he declined the post of poet laureate, but by the time he died of cancer at 63 in 1985, he had become a sort of grumpy unofficial laureate of all that was middling, thwarted and humorously stoic in the contemporary psyche...
...interest was discovering how life might be changing for Irish women, who have been all but invisible in what may be Europe's most repressively patriarchal society. She found some hopeful omens in interviews with three of Ireland's leading feminists: the country's first woman President, Mary Robinson; poet Eavan Boland; and abortion-rights activist Ruth Riddick, who inspired the book's enigmatic title. (One conservative Catholic lady is quoted as saying of Riddick and her ilk: "Oh, those women! Those women encourage whoredom in Kimmage" -- a lower-class Dublin neighborhood...
...film Meyers plays Charlie McKenzie, who has paranoid delusions about all of his girlfriends, except of course the "axe murderer." The only other thing the audience knows about Charlie is that he is a 1990s beatnik cappucino-drinking poet...
...Douglas Wilder of Virginia will preside over the ceremony Counter said yesterday. Ashe's wife, Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe, will unveil the memorial with Counter, and the Rev. Andrew Young will dedicate the structure. Poet Maya Angelou, who spoke at President Clinton's inauguration, will deliver a memorial reading Counter said
Another example of this phenomena is "Dirty Day," dedicated to poet, writer and barfly Charles Bukowski. Bono assumes an eerie falsetto, with a frantic buildup of the Edge's guitar for the first part of the song. Yet the song inexplicably swoops from this to slow melancholy, and then to a hopeful throbbing. It plumbs the emotional heights and depths, yet this just makes it all the more difficult to listen...