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...podium, a man who didn't merely feel the crowd's pain but shared it. And Kennedy reciprocated: he laid himself bare for them, speaking of the death of his brother-something he'd never done publicly and rarely privately-and then he said, "My favorite poem, my favorite poet was Aeschylus. He once wrote, 'Even in our sleep, pain which cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart,'" he paused, his voice quivering slightly as he caressed every word. The silence had deepened, somehow; the moment was stunning. "'Until ... in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom...
...which contains over 100 poems, drafts, and fragments. Bishop, who taught at Harvard from 1970 to 1977, published less than 90 poems in six collections during her lifetime. Vendler’s voice of criticism, while loud, has been mostly alone. Writing in The New Criterion, William Logan, a poet and professor at the University of Florida, noted that “readers will be grateful to find the best of this raw material gathered by Alice Quinn.” David Orr, a poetry columnist for The New York Times Book Review, declared that “the publication?...
...Renowned poet Louise Glück read from her newly-reased collection “Averno: Poems” at Harvard Hillel last night, in the first of a series of talks celebrating National Poetry Month sponsored by the Harvard Book Store...
Glück, a former U.S. poet laureate and Pulitzer Prize winner, read two long poems and two short poems for 30 minutes to an audience mostly comprising members of the Cambridge community that filled Beren Hall’s approximately 170 seats...
Glück was appointed the poet laureate of the United States in 2003, and Averno is her 11th poetry collection. Among other honors, she won the Pulitzer Prize for her 1992 collection “The Wild Iris,” and the 1985 National Book Critics Circle Award for her 1985 collection “The Triumph of Achilles...