Word: poetically
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...brief commentaries concerning the inspiration for their works. Some are purely anecdotal--Robert Bausch's detailing how a conversation about childhood bullying became the genesis for the bitingly funny "Nobody in Hollywood"--but most are insightful glimpses into the writers' imaginations, oftentimes offering prose that is as strikingly poetic as that found in their fiction...
...story that comes closest to Wolff's stunningly rendered "Powder" is "Transactions" by Jamaican writer Michelle Cliff (No Telephone to Heaven, Abeng). As wonderfully bizarre as it poetic, it tells the story of a traveling salesman hawking American goods and culture ("Witch hazel. Superman. Band-Aids, Zane Grey. Chili Con carne...Camels") on a Caribbean island who buys a poor German girl that he finds on the roadside. Before taking the girl home to his sterile wife, they go to an enchanted spring/hotel/tourist attraction run by a woman with an obsession with Jet magazine...
...last few years, Wheeler and Sundays guitar man David Gavurin have begun raising a family; simultaneously, they have birthed some exceptionally creative and poetic songs, and have imbued them with the kind of swirly, impressionistic backup that only five years of perfectionism can accomplish...
...Silence and "that song" everyone brings up when the Sundays are mentioned. "Summertime" has a contagiously hummable chorus but completely indiscernible verse lyrics, which is a shame because, as the most upbeat and melodious of the album's songs, the track is also one of its deepest and most poetic. It begins by painting a honeymoon postcard picture, complete with a "romantic Piscean," an "angel in disguise" and a Poconos-style "heart-shaped hotel room." This image is then contrasted with the situation of those born into circumstances hidden from Western eyes: "but all I see is films where...
...vital texts. And seekers appeared. Many younger congregants yearning for individual spirituality became impatient with American Reform and Conservative Judaism's longtime emphasis on communal concerns such as Israel and synagogue building. Some left; some explored Eastern meditation. And some, notes author Rodger Kamenetz, decided that "Kabbalah is the poetic language of the Jewish soul...