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Named Professor of Russian and Women's and Gender Studies at Amherst College in 1995, Sandler teaches a Slavic department seminar called "Poetic Self-Creation in Twentieth-Century Russia...
...year they canceled spring training? It might be going on somewhere, but to read the papers or watch the sportscasts, you wouldn't know it. Just a decade ago, it was almost obligatory for a writer to pad down in March to some funky Florida field and wax poetic about the summer game. Today you're lucky if you can find a single line of baseball coverage. Spring once meant the crack of the bat, the smell of the grass. Today it means college hoops, March Madness...
...Anglo-Saxon poem. When younger, he notes, "I tended to conceive of English and Irish as adversarial tongues, as either/or conditions rather than both/ands." But this notion faded the deeper he got into his translation. Digging, delving into the loam of language, has been a central metaphor throughout his poetic career. (His most recent selection is titled Opened Ground.) What Heaney has brought to the surface with his Beowulf is an old and newly burnished treasure...
...pleasurably inconsistent, in quality and content. It didn't matter that some of the poems were less than stellar; the audience was ready to enjoy the collective effort at earnest communication-something you don't necessarily find everyday. It was interesting to note the lack of a clear-cut poetic hierarchy between the schools (sorry, Harvard). Nonetheless, Alexander Forrester '01 did make an impression with his poem, "Forty-Two," a six-part "answer to the question of the meaning of life" that weaved together allusions to the _Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy_ with Greek mythology and Shakespeare. A Tufts...
...every reading took on such hefty subject matter, as Tuft's Jacquelyn Benson lightened things up with a dramatic reading of Cyndi Lauper's "Time After Time." Josette Akresh of Boston University staked her claim for the poetic medium with comedic bluntness, "If you don't appreciate poetry you're an ignorant fool...You need a taste of Socrates and a good hard punch in the kisser." Some of the more memorable idiomatic expressions of the night included the fascinating simile, "waves like asses rise and fall," as well as another student's symbolic appropriation of Richard Dean Anderson...