Word: poetes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...insists the fight against sexism and homophobia must be on an equal footing with the battle against racial oppression. "A lot of black brothers and sisters think talking about homophobia and sexism will dilute the attack on racism," says West. "But black culture is unimaginable without James Baldwin, the poet Audre Lorde or ((civil rights activist)) Bayard Rustin, and I won't even begin to talk about black gay brothers and sisters and the role they play in the music of the black church." As for sexism, says West, "for too long, black brothers have been beating up black sisters...
...result, the novella has something of the feel of a clumsily-executed insertion of live-action characters into a well-drawn animated piece. Alfred Tennyson, his sister Emily, and the ghost of their beloved Arthur Hallam (his best friend and her fiance, and the subject of the poet's In Memoriam) move through Byatt's pages alongside the mediums Sophy Sheekhy and Lilias Papagay (the latter being the widow of the briefly-glimpsed Captain Papagay who sails William Adamson off to the Amazon at the end of "Morpho Eugenia"). The passage concerning the Tennysons and Hallam seem little more than...
When asked about his homosexuality, W.H. Auden replied that he was a poet first and a "queen" second. It was a modest response in a less touchy time. Auden was, in fact, a great poet, but for all the public knew or cared, he was just an ordinary homosexual living and working in a world that, by tacit agreement, did not pry into people's sex lives. Even when the media came out of the closet -- pencils erect and cameras hot -- to chase stories about the New Libido, homosexuality was still a taboo subject...
...MERWIN--PULITZER PRIZE-winning poet and author of over 30 books--is standing on Dunster Street talking about garden equipment. A window display for a Harvard Real Estate office, decorated with potted plants, has caught...
Merwin defers repeatedly to the masters--to Flaubert, to Shakespeare, to Dante. He hardly mentions his latest book, Travels, his speech for the Nieman Journalism Fellows, or his reading at the Poet's Theater--the occasion for his visit to Cambridge...