Word: poeticisms
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This strong sense of place in turn highlights an unexpectedly poetic contrast— the bleakness of the working-class Scottish life is offset by the strange power and beauty of the sea that surrounds the characters...
...thing about this operetta is that it musically goes a step beyond the rest of the “Savoy Operas,” as the classic-era G&S operas were called. While the story is appropriately wacky and amusing, one appreciates when characters frequently stop to wax poetic or to throw off an endless stream of words in beautiful song...
...said he hopes to arrange times to be available on Saturday afternoons to converse with shoppers.Solano said that under her ownership, the shop had Saturday afternoon coffee hours when customers were encouraged “to stay around and talk.”LOUISA’S POETIC LICENSEThe Grolier Poetry Shop was founded in 1927 by Gordon Cairnie and Adrian Gambet, but Solano took the helm in 1974, when Cairnie died.Solano was asked to submit several poems for consideration for a memorial book that was made in the late owner’s memory, but she was intimidated...
...writer. With his previous novel, Peter Carey took that idea and gave it a macabre twist. In My Life as a Fake, he reimagined Australia's infamous Ern Malley affair - the 1944 literary hoax played by antimodernists Harold Stewart and James McAuley, who posed as a dead working-class poetic "genius" - by bringing a fabricated identity to life to haunt its creator. The novel's sprawling narrative was as gin-soaked and overripe as its Kuala Lumpur setting, but Carey's theme was sobering: how can we test the merit of a literary work...
LOUISA’S POETIC LICENSE...