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Bertie Ahern, who stepped down as Ireland's Prime Minister today, leaves behind an country that is, in the words of poet William Butler Yeats, "all changed, changed utterly." His resignation as Taoiseach (Prime Minister) underlines the remarkable transformation over which he presided in his decade of leadership: Ireland has grown from an economic backwater to an E.U. success story, and has moved from a bastion of social conservatism to a more open and diverse society. But the same changes may also have ultimately cost Ahern, as Ireland also moved from a deferential political culture to one that asks hard...
...musician, poet and artist Patti Smith isn't ready to rest on her laurels. After her induction into the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame last year, and the recent Sundance premiere of Patti Smith: Dream of Life, a documentary about her life and work, she's now thrown herself headlong into a major exhibition at the Fondation Cartier in Paris, Patti Smith: Land 250, which highlights her photographs and drawings from...
...first made a name for yourself as a poet, then as a musician, now you're being recognized for your visual art. Was it a natural transition moving from one medium to another over time...
...What was it you loved about the poet Arthur Rimbaud as an adolescent...
...commonest argument I’ve heard on behalf of these inanities is that they help people to assure themselves they have, in fact, done the reading. As such, we should not hold them to any higher standard than absentminded doodling. The poet Collins ultimately comes to a similar conclusion: “We have all seized the white perimeter as our own / and reached for a pen if only to show / we did not just laze in an armchair turning pages; / we pressed a thought into the wayside, / planted an impression along the verge...