Word: poeticisms
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They stand, thanks to Eve's powers of poetic evocation. This is not a matter of flowery language but rather of powerful metaphors, the fusing of multiple meanings into a few words. Take the title. The Family Orchard refers to a grove of citrus trees in the stories and also alludes to the term "the family tree." An orchard consists of artificially cultivated trees. "People are supposed to graft," a citrus grower tells his sons. "Part of our partnership in creation." This book is an example of the partnership it celebrates...
...journal selections often incorporated poetic elements into a narrative-like form...
...first solo studio CD in five years, Harris wrote almost all the songs. She has a gift for anthems and elegies, with stark poetic images in the verses and hum-along refrains of tura-luras and alleluias. As encased in producer Matthew Burn's chugging, clanging percussion, Harris' voice gives testimony to a life of adversity and the ability to smile--or at least sing--through...
...have a great advantage over any recent host city of the Games," insists festival director Leo Schofield, "and that is just that building on Bennelong Point." Indeed, whatever quibbles you might have with the Opera House's acoustics or the dinginess of its orchestral pit, Utzon's poetic sails provide a charged and sacred space for musicians. As the Australian Chamber Orchestra's artistic director and lead violinist Richard Tognetti points out, "There's a certain gladiatorial aspect...
...Butler's activities, which include a direct-mail operation and a website. Each Sunday, at his Church of Jesus Christ Christian, he preaches hatred of Jews. And each summer he is host to an Aryan World Congress. At the three-day event in July, Butler pronounced AIDS in Africa "poetic justice." Loudspeakers blared "Aryan rock," and at night everyone enjoyed a good cross burning. But the party will probably be over if Butler loses his compound. "We're barely hanging on," he says dejectedly...