Word: poeticisms
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...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...
...central performance. Spuming his lines with catarrhal intakes of breath punctuating the bolts of rhetoric, Branagh is a whiz at making the poetry colloquial and intelligible; he spits out the 400-year-old verse like a rapmaster. But he can't so easily make it poetic...
...like a Monet painting," says the stylist L'Wren Scott, who dresses such celebrities as Nicole Kidman. "Subtle, elegant and poetic. The clothes make me want to wear a long skirt and run through the Tuileries Gardens...
...author of a 1993 book, “The Regenerate Lyric,” in which she challenged the widespread notion that Ralph Waldo Emerson is the source of the American poetic tradition. Her 1999 book, “The Line’s Eye,” traces the trajectory of American literature from early-18th century preacher Jonathan Edwards to Robert Frost...