Word: poeticisms
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...same time, as such eminent Mexican intellectuals as historian Enrique Krauze has been pointing out, Chiapas doesn't represent all of Mexico. And then there's the question of Marcos's mandate: It isn't only political conservatives who note that, unlike Fox, the masked guerrilla leader with the poetic touch has never actually stood for election. "Fox has legitimacy," said a friend of mine from the Mexican left, as she surveyed the crowd in the Zocalo. But Marcos keeps dissing Fox, omitting his title when referring to him and questioning his motives in embracing the Indians' cause...
...received a great deal of critical acclaim for her first novel, Kaaterskill Falls, as well as for her two previously published collections of short stories, Total Immersion and The Family Markowitz. Goodman is clearly a talented writer. Her style allows her to move easily from colloquial dialogue to poetic descriptions. The characters in Paradise Park are wonderfully vivid, especially the exasperating but always lovable Sharon. The character of Sharon Spiegelman, in fact, originates in Goodman's short story "Onion Skin," which appeared in Total Immersion. Perhaps the character is in fact better suited for a short story than...
...looked only at the subjects Suzan-Lori Parks has tackled--racism, homelessness, sexual hypocrisy--you might mistake her for a polemicist. Yet her dislocating stage devices, stark but poetic language and fiercely idiosyncratic images transform her work into something haunting and wondrous. Not one but two of her plays revolve around a character who makes a living as an arcade attraction playing Abraham Lincoln; patrons pay to impersonate John Wilkes Booth, grab a pistol and shoot him. (The image simply "burned itself into my mind," she explains.) Her spiky plays often take place in a strange nowheresville and feature Greek...
When I sat down on Jan. 20th to watch the inauguration--admittedly as a procrastination technique--I expected to see a couple choirs sing, two presidential oaths, lots of Representatives, a perma-smiling new first family and maybe a musical or poetic solo or two, all in front of a sad looking Bill Clinton. While this is a pretty accurate summary of our country's inauguration last month, I was completely unprepared for the level of religious zeal that permeated the occasion...
Such ideals, linked with her activism, outspoken feminism and writing talent distinguish Rich as both an author and historical figure. From a poem entitled "Greenwood," Rich's unwavering voice expressed her poetic ideals to her audience: "Poetry isn't revolution, but a way of knowing why it must come," she read...