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...words: “I came into this Country, where I found a new World and new manners, at which my heart rose.” I stood there for a moment, smiling, feeling a kinship with the author, Anne Dudley Bradstreet, America’s first English-speaking poet...
...period of automatism, which by means of rubbings, collages, and trance-like binges of "automatic writing" sought to capture pure, unconscious impulse. In 1923 Ernst took time off from automatism to paint his big surprising "lost mural," At The First Clear Word, on two adjoining bedroom walls of Surrealist poet Paul Eluard's house outside Paris. The show reunites the long-separated panels for the first time, to tantalize us with apparent riddles about the ménage à trois in which Ernst and Eluard were engaged with Eluard's beautiful wife Gala. One panel depicts a hand clutching...
Clerici was a tennis player of some distinction, good enough to make the main draw at Wimbledon in 1953. "I lost in the first round because I had bad nose cramps," he jokes. He went on to become a highly regarded poet and novelist?his book White Gestures was a top seller in Italy?and he published a well-received biography of the grande tennis dame Suzanne Lenglen. He was also once named Italy's playwright of the year. The son of a Lombard oil magnate, Clerici is a bon vivant of the first order. Surely the most dapper dresser...
...five children whose obsession with Springsteen has spread to our 70-year-old parents; they have even attended shows with us [MUSIC, Aug. 5]. My father has labeled Springsteen a "true American poet for our generation"--this from a man who attended Amherst College and spent afternoons immersed in the poetry of Robert Frost. Listening to the words of the songs on Bruce's new album, The Rising, brings me comfort as I try to digest all that has happened this past year. His commanding us to "rise up" from the events of Sept. 11 is like a preacher instructing...
...year, So his mother schooled him in the classics, which helped him develop an imposing memory, not to mention the ability to read by ear. Being of the male sex, he was allowed to do a year at Hahvard, And then, instead of waiting to be discahvard, Our poet left school to support himself at one odd job or another. First he taught at his old high school, then he tried Wall Street, which he found very trying indeed, since in 18 months he sold only one bond, and that to his godmother. He then landed a job at Doubleday...