Word: poeticisms
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...received the attention given his flamboyantly talented and troubled friends. Robert Lowell's struggles with manic-depression and mental institutions found their way into his later, confessional poetry. John Berryman's alcoholism was legendary while he lived, and his suicide made headlines. In contrast, Jarrell refused to exercise his poetic licenses. He did not drink or philander; his first marriage ended in an amicable divorce after twelve years, and his second lasted until his death...
...poetic piece “Oh Her? She’s so (Fill in the Blank)” also touched on the serious subject of ignorance of cultural hardship and the problem of Harvard students making flash judgments of others based on limited encounters...
...just listen to Steffan Wilson, the rookie phenom, wax poetic about Wheeler’s sense of humor...
...were so arresting for Alasdair Foster, director of Sydney's Australian Centre for Photography, that he decided to base an exhibition around them. "It set me thinking about the fact that we don't talk much about our nearest neighbors," says Foster. While Blackmore's 25 startling yet often poetic images, of scenes from sing sings to AIDS wards, provide a social context for the raskols in "PNG" (the show opens this week), it is Dupont's 30 portraits that are more likely to challenge the way Australians see their neighbors. As well as flaunting hand-made guns and machetes...
That said, the effectiveness of many elements varied—the language straddled the line between highly poetic, nouveau Shakespeare and over-indulgent narcissistic trash; the pacing was slow and difficult, but at the same time, a reflection on the character’s boredom...