Word: poetes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...statues at the Ramesseum, his mortuary temple at Thebes, takes its title from the Greek version of one of the ruler's alternate names, User-maat-re. "Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!" said the inscription on the pharaoh's statue in Shelley's sonnet. Though the poet was making the point that such boasts are hollow because great monuments eventually decay, Ramesses' achievements were truly magnificent...
...homosexuality dominate this third volume. The theme was present but not expricit in th first novel and explicit but not much developed in the second. It may be that for Price the necessart sterility of gay sex reinforces his pervasive sense of failed connection between people. hutchins Mayfield, a poet and literature professor, and the father who tends gis estranged, AIDS afflicted son, is presented as bisexual, though he is married and his active gay experiences were in his youth. His bisexualtiy has multigenerational echoes. Mayfield's scapegrace father, whose sickness and death are the pivot of the second nomel...
...Duffin makes 'difficult' poets more accessible without oversimplifying, drawing on her wealth of knowledge yet never pulling away from the book," Stiener said. "Her writing displays a discursive suppleness and a metaphorical resource almost equal to the poet's own gifts, offering sure, clear articulation of the right way to approach a daunting new book...
...many things, in addition to being a gay poet--I am a Catholic poet, a Southern poet, a male poet--hopefully, a good poet. I have many identities, as do most Americans; we're all hybrids. I was born in Japan, I have a French mother, rumor has it I have a black great grandfather. To say that I am a gay poet is true, but it is not the only truth...
...have borrowed some forms and ideas from George Herbert, who, in addition to being a poet of piety, is a poet of insurrection. His divided self is what draws me to him. That there are always factions warring within us is an essential truth I like seeing transmuted into poetry...