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...soldier. From this moment on, Agu’s life is a journey through all sorts of violence and brutality, led by the chilling figure of a “Commandant” who abuses him in all possible ways. Through the lens of Agu’s innocently poetic voice, the reader is compelled to enter a world of horrifying violence.It is the Commandant who detachedly explains to him that killing “is like falling in love. You cannot be thinking about it, you are just having to do it.” Horrifyingly, the reader...
...babbling brook, which might boost real estate prices significantly. Further, the proposed name was intelligently designed—“lane” instead of “street”—to avoid unnecessary alliteration, so as not to reflect badly on residents’ poetic sensibilities...
...Rooms. Lee Blessing's meditation on a Beirut hostage and his grieving spouse was the play of the year, its poetic pain matched by Laura Esterman's gutsy portrait of the wife and James Houghton's brilliantly imaginative staging at off-off- Broadway's tiny Signature Theater. The couple was separated in reality yet entwined in fantasy, often at the same moment...
...Robinson says. She adds “I don’t write poetry to write about my life, but it ends up there anyway,” and Harvard readers will recognize references to English Professor Leo Damrosch and the T subway. Her poetic voice is compelling enough to bind these disparate elements together, but their union is sometimes mysterious: despite their confident language and intriguing contents, some of the poems are opaque and difficult to understand. The title poem, “The Life of a Hunter,” is inspired not by the film...
...your new book, you wax poetic about doing laundry. Why? It may be that part of my pleasure is the pleasure of the released prisoner. I remember very well what it was like in my childhood in a very backward part of the country [Appalachia]. We had this tub with a wringer, and it was an ordeal. The day my mother did wash, she was irritable because she was tired and she hated it. The rain would come, and the wash wouldn't dry. So when you finally have these machines and all you do is make decisions and push...