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George Bush's sense of humor has always run more to frat-house gag than art-house irony, so he may not have appreciated the poetic justice any more than the legal justice on display in the Libby verdict...
...environmental (and culinary) disadvantages of relying on a global food supply. Her most oft-quoted statistic is that shipping a strawberry from California to New York requires 435 calories of fossil fuel but provides the eater with only 5 calories of nutrition. In her memoir, Gussow offers this rather poetic meaning of local: "Within a day's leisurely drive of our homes. [This] distance is entirely arbitrary. But then, so was the decision made by others long ago that we ought to have produce from all around the world...
Piaf's life story is as familiar to the French as her catalog of hits. And like any good tale, it's often told with much poetic license. The standard version goes something like this: born on a Paris sidewalk, Piaf was raised in her grandmother's brothel in Normandy before her acrobat father took her back to her birthplace. After cabaret owner Louis Leplée discovered her singing in the street, Piaf was soon topping the bill in the city's most exalted venues and conquering America. Oh, and don't forget the miracle that cured her childhood...
...Sanon laments the status of black America. “In the land of freedom, in chains / In the land of freedom, insane,” she bellows. In the final song, “Where Y’all At?,” Marsalis himself delivers a poetic diatribe against modern American life. Under his shouts, the band lays into a bluesy New Orleans groove and a chorus echoes his lines as if he were preaching to a gospel church. “It can’t all be blamed on the party of Lincoln...
Helen Vendler, Porter University professor and world-renowned scholar and critic of poetry, agrees there is undoubtedly a strong poetic tradition at Harvard, but she argues that it would be parochial to think Harvard had a determining role in American poetry...