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...cheap thrills of literary biography. Thompson reported that Frost had been, behind his endearing facade, something of a monster. He described, for example, the night Frost's daughter Lesley stumbled downstairs into the kitchen when her parents were fighting. Frost was holding a revolver, according to Thompson, and the poet told Lesley to choose which parent she preferred, since one of them would be dead by morning...
Language and metaphor dominate Winterson's writing, which includes such well-received novels as Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, Sexing the Cherry and Written on the Body. Her storytelling, however, gets lost in tales that at times seem written by a poet forced that to write fiction. Revealingly her most stunning piece is titled "The poetics of Sex." In it says of her lover: "How she fats me. She plumps me, pats me, squeezes and feeds me. Feed me up with lust till I'm as fat as she is." Such language, with its musicality and carefree rhymes reads...
...poetry readers at the magazine's kick-off function included Edwards, Silva and noted poet Joaquim-Francisco Coelho, Smith professor of language and literature...
...impossible: merely the forgotten truth. Poet Joan Murray, in her epic poem Queen of the Mist, details the sad life and short fame of Annie Taylor, an elderly and utterly destitute school teacher living at the turn of the century who devised and executed what seemed the perfect plan for money and fame. After building with her thin hands a barrel to enclose her body like a womb and shelter her from her fall over the raging ledge of water, Annie Taylor subsequently became the first person in history to propel herself down the length of Niagara Falls...
...poetry readers at the magazine's kick-off function included Edwards, Silva and noted poet Joaquim-Francisco Coelho, Smith professor of language and literature...