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...lyrics were equally innovative. Instead of the familiar themes of love and loss, he wrote vividly poetic images, inspired by the free-flowing narratives found in the works of Latin writers like Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Carlos Fuentes. "Most Latin songs are about the guy who betrayed his best friend, or the women who left him, or saying let's party," explains Blades, who opted instead to paint an expressionist canvas that included blessed sinners and murdered priests, the cry of political revolt and the stifled silence between lovers. In Ojos de Perro Azul (Eyes of a Blue Dog), from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUBEN BLADES: Singer, Actor, Politico | 1/29/1990 | See Source »

Finely curated by Franklin Kelly, this is the first full-dress Church exhibition in 25 years, and it gives us the man whole: his poetic eye, his formidable ability to marshal vast quantities of visual data, his passion for botany and geology -- and his flashes of provincial vulgarity too, his shameless playing to the gallery. If one wants to understand the 19th century appetite for pictorial mastery as a metaphor of the conquest of "untrammeled" nature, this is the show to start with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Blockbusters of An Inventive Showman | 1/8/1990 | See Source »

Osherow, who lived, worked and wrote in the hills outside Florence from 1981 to 1983, says that it takes about 10 years for a writer to develop a poetic voice and produce a volume of poetry...

Author: By Philip M. Rubin, | Title: A New Generation of Harvard Poets | 12/7/1989 | See Source »

Ashbery also discussed Beddoes' poetic fragments. He described these fragments as having "bottomless meaning" with great perplexity, but still "complete as [they] stand...

Author: By Christine A. Deleo, | Title: Ashbery Describes Death In Poetry of Beddoes | 11/30/1989 | See Source »

...exiled Spaniards who might otherwise have excoriated him for his allegiance in the civil war. In later years his fierce independence won increasing regard. He was among those, after Franco's death, who were asked to write a new Spanish constitution. Beyond that, his best novels, with their violent, poetic hyper-realities, affirmed a tradition that stretches from Cervantes to Gabriel Garcia Marquez...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Risky Life | 10/30/1989 | See Source »

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