Word: poetic
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...Heart) L.A.” is another high-concept piece that walks the fine line between art and artifice, but ultimately redeems itself through its boldy poetic indictment of utopian seduction. Delicate waves of acoustic guitar and electronic pulses dance over trash-can beats and mounting feedback, culminating in Dose’s staccato proclamation that “whats wrong with the world has to do with those fell in love with New York or Los Angeles or Paris or Jerusalem /and me of course.” Pseudointellectual “emo-rap” artists like Atmosphere?...
...Widow Douglas, Huck’s adoptive mother and owner from whom Jim has fled, shows up sporadically, but the one direct reference to the eponymous rapscallion appears only on the 132nd of 161 pages. Jim himself seems more like a ghost of inspiration, a whiff of poetic afflatus, than a flesh-and-blood character, for all his occasional poignancy...
...sole force driving this series of poetic works into being was, according to Manning, the American legend Daniel Boone. Taking the perspective of the historical frontiersman, Manning composed a voluminous poetic discussion on the meaning of loneliness, grief, and the life and times of Boone, who was “a citizen of nowhere” at his death, according to Manning. He went on to describe the poems in a personal sense, including stories from the spans of time in his life when he himself lived alone, though all of the poems were spoken in impersonal voices. A sense...
...confines of historical limitations, and a particular frame of mind, the body of A Compilation for Owls presents a strikingly provocative and multifaceted poetic exploration into the mind the historical legend. Along with a talent for thoroughly identifying his characters in his prose, Manning has a rare and unique ability to capture the grotesque in a moving, thoughtful way. Many of the gruesome snapshots of reality convey a purposeful meaning, as in the emotional tribute to Boone’s deceased son, Israel, which provides a startlingly graphic yet real and passionate description of the way a person like Boone...
...fact, Tom took it to heart. It’s nearly impossible to get the centerman waxing poetic about anything but the team. Team accomplishments. Team strengths. Team weaknesses. Team objectives...