Word: poeticize
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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What amazes one about the development of political change in Eastern Europe, and especially in Czechoslovakia, is how the intellectuals and their poetic sensibilities of truth became a public force in the political arena. This is a noteworthy book about a remarkable man in a remarkable time. Given the unimaginable nature of the challenges of Vaclav Havel's life, it would have been difficult for Kriseova to write anything besides a fairy tale, in which, at the last, good wins out over evil...
Simpson showed slides to illustrate the "poetic pragmatism" he uses "to deal with environmental issues...
...Palace of Dreams, Ismail Kadare's most recent work to be published in English, exemplifies these thoughtful, sometimes poetic, intellectual allegories for a life in a totalitarian state. Despite the occasional awkward or forced speculation on the alienation and mayhem caused by cruel, inept bureaucracy, the novel generally succeeds in creating an interesting and often engrossing tale...
Their life together meets a fateful disruption when they arrive in Rome and join up with a tent circus group at the edge of town. Here Gelsomina meets "The Fool" (Richard Basehart), player of the world's smallest violin. The Fool has a gentle poetic nature, and falls for Gelsomina immediately. She is so shocked that someone is being kind to her that she walks into the doorpost. But The Fool and Zampano have an old rivalry that will not die. Gelsomina blindly loves Zampano. However, she also loves The Fool. How this triangle finally resolves itself and what happens...
...willing to live with it and work it out on your own," she says. "A good poem is like a bouillon cube. It's concentrated, you carry it around with you, and it nourishes you when you need it." With Dove as poet laureate, Americans will get plenty of poetic sustenance...