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...both making the reader laugh and of delivering profound statements. In many instances, the novel serves as a light satire of British institutions, gently poking fun at their interesting idiosyncrasies. A particularly funny example of this is a classroom scene in which a student asks the teacher if a poet whom the class is studying is gay. After berating the student, accusing him of having a “grubby and ultimately rather banal little mind” and insisting that “the artistic temperament has no gender,” the teacher undermines his own efforts...
...Soviet Union has opened to foreigners. Christa (Kit) Malone, no longer a lonely adolescent girl, makes a pilgrimage to Russia to excavate the true history of her relationship with Innokenti Isayevich Falin, a recently exiled Russian poet. He has vanished under mysterious circumstances—with his life’s work—and Kit has published her translations of his poems under her name. Whatever she unearths about his mystery, it is also her own: Kit’s journey to Russia reconciles her to her own past as much as to Falin?...
Instead, the book opens into widening circles. Crowley’s story soon has three principal figures, though the third, JFK, remains distant. Nonetheless, he is at the center of the novel as the last true American poet, the last person to carry the nation’s spirit. Falin speaks of Pushkin as Kit might speak of JFK: a national poet “must express our spirit, must stand for us and speak...
...turns that have always been her great joy to express to live audiences. She is big on poems themselves these days, performing them straight up, new and old, at all of her recent concerts. She prefaced her newest song, inaugurated Friday night, by reading two short poems by the poet Lucille Clifton. The new song is provocative, and incredibly verbose, jam packed with the kind of raw melodic vocal preaching that DiFranco fans have come to expect. Before reading Clifton’s poem Ani grinningly declared with typical candor, “I’ve always used poems...
...tours that run concurrently. The rock tour, which this year featured Alien Ant Farm and The Apex Theory, caters for the harder-headed listeners, while the romantically named Icicle Ball presents an eclectic mix of artists tending towards the more adventurous. This year’s Ball even featured poet Saul Williams on some of the stops...