Word: poeticisms
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...could wax poetic about the joys of vacationing in the great outdoors, like roasting marshmallows, collecting pine cones and wandering aimlessly through the woods. But let's face it--communing with nature doesn't always mean one breathtaking vista after another. It rains. There are too many bugs. There's no hot water. And those darned chirping crickets keep you up all night...
...instance, the first poem Sacks read, entitled “Head,” uses a poetic treatment of an African sculpture to reflect on the continent as a whole. The poem, Sacks told the audience, was written at the request of officials at Yale who solicited work from various poets on art in their Museums for the University’s tercentennial celebrtation. Another of the poems Sacks performed reflects the speaker’s experience of walking along a continental divide, exploring the scenery while expressing his emotional and intellectual response to literally being at the crossroads...
...Sacks’ lifelong infatuation with water. An avid swimmer, Sacks once noted in an interview with the Harvard Gazette, “I feel the desire to immerse myself in another element which is uncontrollable, mysterious, beautiful, rhythmic, and which is related to my desire to engage with poetic language as a medium...
...Budapest as second best to their idealized Central European city?. What happens in this novel is not nearly so important as Phillip's wonderful grasp of Budapest's look, style and ethos, and his sometimes sympathetic, often scathing view of the Western interlopers. His writing is swift, often poetic, unerringly exact with voices and subtle details of time, weather and place. This novel is so complete a distillation of its theme and characters that it leaves a reader wondering how on earth Phillips can follow it up...This brilliant book seems certain to be widely and admiringly reviewed...the most...
Scientists waxed poetic at the first-ever Society of Physics Students (SPS) poetry slam last month. At first, none of the 30 students gathered in Lyman 426 were willing to open their mouths—and it wasn’t just because of the eggplant pizza on the table...