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...ready his copy of Critical Essays by German poet and essayist Hans Magnus Enzensberger to corroborate his belief that writing movies is a valid intellectual pursuit. In a passage Silva calls “very well put,” Enzenberger claims, “Retreat from the media will not even save the intellectual’s precious soul from corruption. It might be a better idea to enter the dangerous game, to take and calculate our risks...We must know very precisely the monster we are dealing with...
...poet and an engineering professor, Ozernoy was born in Moscow on May 19, 1939. He received degrees in both physics and astronomy at Moscow University. And at Moscow’s prestigious Lebedev Physics Institute, where he later worked, he acquired a doctorate in physics and mathematics...
...Poet Samuel Coleridge described drama as “that willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.” I was reminded of this quote upon revisiting Joseph Kesselring’s classic comedy Arsenic and Old Lace in a sharp production that transports a theatergoer with delight into a world of unrepentant absurdity...
...Museum marked a triumphal homecoming for John Ashbery. A contributor and member of the executive board of The Harvard Advocate, Ashbery composed one of his best-known poems, “Some Trees,” while still an undergraduate. Since his graduation and his selection as Class Poet, Ashbery has won nearly every prestigious poetry award in the nation, including the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry for his 1975 volume Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror. But accolades aside, Ashbery remains one of the most important poets today...
...next year I chose a seminar with an extremely nice visiting professor who had the soul of a poet and the backbone of a garden slug. I was surprised to get back one particularly shoddy essay with the final mark of “A.” At first I rationalized the grade, deciding that my work must have stood out because the seminar included several legendary stoners. One of them, known to his peers as the Bazooka (because he was often heavily loaded), differed from Bill Clinton in that he had never actually exhaled. But at semester?...