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...poet" is unlikely to be challenged by the volume's 14 linked poems (sample: "The wind grows louder about me, shrill with pain,/ And blows the petalled faces from my heart"). But scholarly assessments of the novelist are already being revised to include a deepened appreciation of the poetic influences on his prose style...
...phrase "between a rock and a hard place" is, to my knowledge, a ruralism. I first heard it in Arizona about 1940 and had the impression it had been in use long before that. Country sayings almost invariably have a much higher poetic component than their big-city equivalents. Some of these observations have become classics, like "nervous as a long-tailed cat in a roomful of rockin' chairs." One of my particular favorites is "as lonesome as a peanut in a boxcar...
Kuralt's official destination that day was a one-man steam sawmill outside Onalaska, owned and operated by Gene Frase, 70, a laconic, down-to-earth man who turns downright poetic when he talks about his conflicting passions: the sweetly efficient steam engine and the lost stands of tall trees that the mill engines turned into lumber. The next day, Kuralt interviewed senior Elephant Keeper Roger Henneous at the Washington Park Zoo. In both cases, much of the filming had already been done by another crew before Kuralt arrived on the scene. His schedule these days, which also includes...
Jody Powell, who as President Jimmy Carter's press secretary once poured a glass of wine over ABC News Correspondent Sam Donaldson, now has found a more poetic means of revenge...
...entrenched local elite descended from colonial Spaniards. He attacks his topic with both satire and allegory. The Ventures are so ludicrous that they seem gross caricatures of a complacent elite, if they are characters in a satire their death in the thistle storm represents a sort of poetic justice. But the survival of some of the family by huddling close to the ground makes an allegorical point the cleverest way to weather totalitarian storms is to lay low and wait for them to pass over Donoso uses satire as a way of bringing out his allegory, but at times...