Word: poetes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...lives a continent away from Legare, in San Francisco, but perhaps not quite a world apart. Having come out to her parents and schoolmates at age 12, she now calls herself "a queer youth activist"--an identification she uses effortlessly, as though she were saying "ninth grader" or "aspiring poet," other terms that describe her. Articulate beyond her years, De Vries' work with a gay youth group led to her appointment to an advisory committee of the city's Human Rights Commission. She is, by more than a decade, the committee's youngest member. Jarringly precocious, she scheduled an interview...
...beloved for its light powder and cheap lift tickets. In his later years, he returned to his youthful dreams of writing poetry. Just before he died, Laughlin was working on Byways, an extended narrative he was writing in a meter he had learned from Kenneth Rexroth, another New Directions poet...
...here: his subject is at once immanent and idealized, both a radiant presence and a metaphysical abstraction. In a similar fashion, Stevens' best known shorter poems, among them "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird" and "Not Ideas About the Thing But the Thing Itself," concern themselves with the poet's subjective experience while invoking such austere, resonant imagery as to leave the reader little room to doubt the poet's constructed world...
...Awiakta, a poet, essayist and storyteller from Memphis, Tenn., weaves Cherokee ways, Appalachian heritage and strong feminism. Free. Lesley College, 29 Everett...
...this, too, is part of Lorca's aesthetic goal. As the poet once wrote, "Only mystery makes us live." Combining the lucid with the ambiguoius, the symbolic with the earthy, the beautiful with the terrible, Lorca's vision is onw which deserves to be more widely performed and appreciated. As we approach the centennial anniversary of his death, and as his native country gears up for a massive celebration of his literary legacy, it's appropriate that such fine performances of his drama be performed in other languages--celebrating a poignant delicacy of speech which maintains its painful beauty, even...