Word: poetes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...truth, when disclosed at the end, seems to belong to a slick thriller rather than to the work of emotional and spiritual impact that Keneally has written. But, as the poet Randall Jarrell said, "a novel is a prose narrative - of some length that has something wrong with...
...flimsy 1935 comedy Three Men on a Horse that opened last week. Randall and his Odd Couple TV partner Jack Klugman are paired for the first time ever in parts other than fussy Felix and macho Oscar -- but not very much other. Randall plays a fey, naive would-be poet who writes greeting-card verses and as a hobby handicaps horse races. Klugman plays a boozing, brawling professional bettor who discovers that Randall never picks the wrong horse and press-gangs him into partnership. In lesser roles are such familiar stage and screen faces as John Beal, Joey Faye, Ellen...
...novel shifts easily and cinematically from present to past. Some contemporary passages are a bit dutiful, but at her best Brady writes with a poet's economy, evoking Jonathan's chaotic century in brief detonations of imagery. Without preachment, Theory of War says slavery involves more than the loss of freedom. It also means life without illusion and a lingering nightmare of anger that can pass from parent to child. That "secret bond," as Brady calls it, may be the most terrible consequence of America's greatest tragedy...
Nobel prizewinning poet Derek Walcott is one of many big-name alumni converging on the University of the West Indies campus in Mona, Jamaica, April 14-18. The event is U.W.I.'s Gathering of Graduates, and the guest list includes the Prime Ministers of Jamaica, Barbados and St. Kitts. While in Jamaica, Walcott will be raising money for a new Caribbean-based international center promoting the arts and the study of economics. He will announce the project this week in Boston...
EARL WILD TOURED WITH, AND THEN REcorded, three synoptic all-Liszt programs, called "The Poet," "The Transcriber," "The Virtuoso" -- three apt descriptions for Wild himself. He's a throwback to the Golden Age pianists, exulting in the sensuality of Romanticism and the vertiginous, almost orchestral possibilities of the piano. Two CDs demonstrate his superb musicianship and rare virtuosity: Chopin: 4 Ballades -- 4 Scherzi and Earl Wild Plays His Transcriptions of Gershwin (Chesky Records). Chopin's works vary widely in mood and tempo, yet Wild sustains the long singing lines that provide their pulse and shape. That singing -- with wit, warmth...