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...DIED. TO HUU, 82, Vietnamese poet who glorified the Communist fight against the French and the Americans and who later went on to hold senior government posts during the postwar era; in Hanoi. "I am both a revolutionary and a poet," Huu once wrote. "For me, poems are a weapon for the revolution." A member of the Elite Politburo, Huu was a former Deputy Prime Minister...
...DIED. STAN RICE, 60, American poet and painter; from brain cancer; in New Orleans. Rice, the husband of Interview with a Vampire novelist Anne Rice, won several awards for his seven collections of poetry, including the Edgar Allan Poe Award from the Academy of American poets and the Joseph Henry Jackson Award...
...music with Bono (who wanted to discuss politics), hanging out with Van Morrison (who disliked his lousy dancing), trying to get his novel Midnight's Children made for TV (in vain, though a London stage version opens Jan. 18). Or sitting in a heavily guarded New York hotel as poet Allen Ginsberg shows him breathing exercises to relieve fatwa-induced stress. "How extraordinary it was," says Rushdie, "for an Indian by birth to be taught Buddhism by an American poet sitting cross-legged in a room full of men armed to the gills. There's nothing like life...
...Minh City. Visitors can wander the gaudy halls of the Holy See in search of enlightenment?or an eyeful. Murals depict the sacred eye of God in a triangle and recreate the signing of the Third Alliance between God and man, witnessed by Caodaism's most revered saints: Vietnamese poet Trang Trinh, Chinese nationalist leader Sun Yat-sen and writer Victor Hugo. Midday Mass is open to the public and attended by church elders in brilliant blue, red and yellow robes...
...also treated his fans to the inner workings of a poet in his poem “Monday,” which talks about the routines of daily work...