Word: poetes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Undergraduates retreat to the local pub, the Serf'n Turf, to regroup. There, Sasha Nidiot (a Cliff Clavin parody played by Nick Gordon '95), informs us that it's nice to be where everybody knows your name. And we learn that Dusty Yevsky, a local cowboy and poet, has a crush on a singing cow, Bess Western ("But soft," Mr. Yevsky exclaims passionately, "what light from yonder bovine breaks." Sadly, Ms. Western has her doubts. "I don't feel right dating someone who's higher up on the food chain," she demurs...
...poet, he had the advantage of seeming never to have had to serve an apprenticeship. There would be something almost chilling, if it weren't so cheering, about the ease with which, at 20, he negotiated the considerable challenges of rhyme and meter he set for himself. Of course he belonged to a generation of surpassing formal accomplishment. That fertile decade of his birth-the 1920s-also gave us Richard Wilbur, Anthony Hecht, Howard Moss, Amy Clampitt, Howard Nemerov. But as a craftsman he exceeded them all-in the thrill of the unexpected, anyway. Indeed, more than any American poet...
Debussy's opera, based on the play by Belgian symbolist poet Maurice Maeterlinck, is set in the mythical kingdom of Allemonde, but director Peter Sellars has updated the locale to modern Malibu, California. The production was hailed when first seen in June 1993 at the Netherlands Opera; now, 20 months later in Los Angeles, the thematic overtones already present are eerily redoubled. Call it zeitgeist synergy...
...Tela. Two days before she was killed, she had led a peaceful demonstration to protest the National Agrarian Institute's plan to distribute land to campesinos who, she claimed, would sell it to foreign investors. Police are focusing their investigation on two peasant groups. DIED. JAMES MERRILL, 68, American poet who chronicled experiences and emotions from his own life with intricately crafted, eclectic blends of rhyme and meter; of a heart attack; while on vacation in Tucson, Arizona. The son of a founding partner of the stock-brokerage firm Merrill Lynch, he had a remarkably productive career that included plays...
...Sarajevo. In nearly three years under siege, Sarajevans have refused to allow the Bosnian capital's artistic soul to perish. An emotional highlight at the 11th annual Sarajevo Winter Festival last week was a one-time-only performance of an operetta by Britain's Nigel Osborne and Bosnian poet Goran Simic. With President Alija Izetbegovic in the audience, the production (also seen on national television) was complete with soloists, the city's symphony orchestra and 150 members of its children's chorus...