Word: poetically
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There is nothing simple about Santana's music. The group's second recording, Abraxas, released this week by Columbia Records, shows less propulsive violence than the first, Santana. What it offers instead is a rare poetic delicacy. Rhythms move in parallel layers, interrupting, overlaying, penetrating one another, multiplying into mathematical complexity, finally merging into one overwhelming musical thrust. Unlike many rock groups, Santana uses lyrics rarely, avoiding cultural ferment in favor of musical bite. Though it offers an occasional vocal solo (as in the bluesy Hope You're Feeling Better), most of its featured solos...
...Dostoevsky, Reck believed that the end of the world was at hand. And like Dostoevsky's "underground man," Reck spat his hatred and isolation into the face of history. He had no way of knowing that it is an ironic history. Like a classical Fury giving birth to poetic justice, Diary of a Man in Despair pursues ex-Nazi Albert Speer's Inside the Third Reich into English (TIME, Sept...
...French mysteries, were abject hommages to American directors of the recent past. This Man Must Die pays an older debt. As Charles seeks his son's killer, his self-examinations are not reminiscent of a contemporary detective but of Ulysses on some unchartable mental voyage. Indeed, Chabrol makes poetic use of the wine-dark sea and refers constantly to the ancient legends of death and vengeance...
...THERE seem to be weaknesses in Morse's treatment of the poetry: he never confronts the idea of the moment of poetic vision, nor Stevens' reticence to deal with love in his work; he fails occasionally to bring passion to his reading (particularly when dealing with "Notes Toward A Supreme Fiction"); and his taste-shown also by the pieces which Morse picked for Selected Poems -is occasionally surprising. In fact, many of the critical passages read like chatty bibliography...
...Kermode's Wallace Stevens and J. Hillis Miller's essay in Boets of Reality, it's one of the best books on Stevens around, far and away superior to Helen Vendler's On Exetnded Wings. But there still remains the task of writing the story of the man whose poetic genius is equalled in this century only by Yeals and Eliot. There still remains...