Word: poetically
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...anguish for the single country, forged over a millennium, beautiful, horrible, yet spiritual and poetic, created and lived in by my forefathers, grandfather, father and mother...
...standing room only in this gritty neighborhood tavern. The audience is there for the weekly "slam," a literary version of The Gong Show at which amateur poets compete for small cash prizes and the much richer reward of having their work heard by an enthusiastic public. The poetic abilities of many contestants may be open to debate, but the audience is always in top form. On a typical evening a rambling poem about using nuclear weapons to blow up political banquets brings raucous cheers. A watery ode to existentialism ("Nothing that is worth having actually is . . .") draws equally good-natured...
...poetic populists claim that their efforts are providing fresh blood for an increasingly anemic area of American culture. The transfusion is substantial: the New York City Poetry Calendar currently lists an average of 15 gatherings each night. In Los Angeles the Poetry Hotline gives updates on readings; meanwhile, celebrities like Joe Spano, who played sensitive Sergeant Henry Goldblume on TV's Hill Street Blues, render their favorite poems in trendy spots like the Chateau Marmont. "Poetry deserves to be heard," he says...
Todd does not project her voice enough to overcome the acoustics of the room, and her delivery is, almost without exception, unvarying. Worst of all, the most poetic lines of the play, when constricted by a solely realistic interpretation, appear to be embarassing instead of poignant in their formality...
...poetic on stage," Mamet once said, "forget it." The Leverett House production of The Woods lacks exactly this crucial element of poetry...