Word: poetes
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Walking on water wasn’t built in a day,” she said, quoting the poet Jack Kerouac...
...showed a propensity for examining some of the literature’s most pregnant themes through a variety of artistic lenses. She performed, for instance, several dramatic monologues by the Greek gods of the underworld, Hades and Persephone, which, although often reflecting Stallings’ characteristic irony, gave the poet a fertile literary topos in which to make some very thought-provoking, even profound, meditations on death and dying...
Stallings, who studied classics at the University of Georgia and at Oxford, is currently at work on a verse translation of the Roman philosopher-poet Lucretius’ epic De Rerum Natura. Thus, Stallings’ preoccupation with classical themes is not particularly surprising. What is especially interesting about Stallings’ work is that in spite of her devotion to the Classics, she does not shy away from exploring themes that are uniquely modern—even futuristic...
...Vivienne Eliot, First Wife of T.S. Eliot, and the Long-Suppressed Truth About Her Influence on His Genius" by Carole Seymour-Jones. According to the publisher, "By the time Vivienne Haigh Eliot was committed to a mental asylum in 1938, it had been five years since her husband, poet-genius T. S. Eliot, had left her, years in which she had stubbornly refused to believe the truth that he despised her and would never return... 'Painted Shadow' is not only the first-ever biography of this long scapegoated and marginalized woman, it is also an immaculately researched account of post...
...sure," the poet Gary Snyder remarked, "the Japanese are mind-boggled by the historical accident that American bohemians became the caretakers of Zen in the West." In the sections of his book where he celebrates this mind-boggling aspect of the story, Downing shows that the things that went right at Zen Center are in the end much more important than all that went so sadly, and so predictably, wrong...