Word: poetes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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These snippets of exotic fiction mark the debut of Melville, already "an actress, a trained psychologist, a comedienne, scriptwriter and published poet," according to the psychedelic book jacket. Though the author displays similar versatility in her writing style, her succinct descriptions and forceful characters cannot compensate for the impoverished plots...
Deep in a Dream of You--with poet and performance artist David Cale. At the Institute of Contemporary Art Theater, 266-5152 or 266-5153. At 8 p.m. on Thursday, Friday and Saturday...
...What about the men's movement as defined and led by poet Robert...
...many scientists see Biosphere 2 as a kook's dream and a rich man's whim: John Allen, who used to call himself Johnny Dolphin, the engineer, ecologist and poet-playwright who hatched the scheme and heads the project, and Texas billionaire Edward Bass, who is financing the venture, have been described as onetime members of a cultlike commune. Biosphere participants have admitted that the degrees some of them received from the Institute of Ecotechnics in London are something of a sham; the institute was set up by Bass to confer legitimacy on the project...
...Does the poet's work redeem the poet's mess? Sexton was working in a rich literary tradition. Her immediate American predecessors were not a wholesome precedent: John Berryman (alcoholic, suicide), Robert Lowell (episodically psychotic), Delmore Schwartz (alcoholic), Theodore Roethke (manic-depressive), Elizabeth Bishop (alcoholic). Sexton had shrewd instincts. "With used furniture he makes a tree," she wrote. "A writer is essentially a crook." Maybe...