Word: poeticizing
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Nocturnes for the King of Naples, his second novel, was written in a mood of gay fantasy. It was turned down by 12 publishers before it found its way to Michael Denneny, an editor at St. Martin's Press. Denneny was mesmerized by White's poetic prose and daring story. "Of all the gay writers who made it in the '70s, Edmund was the only one who had entree in the pre-existing literary circles, the sophisticated world of Susan Sontag and Richard Howard, but he turned his back on it. He wanted it known that...
...pretend that the score doesn't matter. I tell myself I truly appreciate the subtleties of the national pastime. And, I tell myself, the poetic musings of the cleverest newspaper sports columnists convey The Baseball Experience better than any statistic...
...downfall set off a fresh round of amazement among Trump watchers, who only four months ago had savored the melodrama of his separation from his wife Ivana and his affair with the model Marla Maples. The distress of Donald, the biggest self-promoter of the past decade, was too poetic to resist. TRUMP IN A SLUMP declared the New York Daily News. UH-OWE! said the city's Post, which dubbed Trump's new casino "the eighth blunder of the world...
...spend time in the trenches. The meaning of life is life itself: the daily routine that demands its own unobtrusive heroism. Goethe's lines are often read as an imperative call to revolutionary struggle, but there is nothing peremptory or fanatical in them once they are stripped of their poetic imagery. Reflections rejected all extremes, the intransigence of revolutionaries and reactionaries alike. It called for compromise and for progress moderated by enlightened conservatism and caution. Marx notwithstanding, evolution is a better "locomotive of history" than revolution: the "battle" I had in mind was nonviolent...
...novel is saved from melodrama by the presence of the camp's founder, the "Chief," who disdains Boatner's poetic, dense voice for simple words, hard and clear. After the death of a boy at camp, he intones, "We thank you for all that's left to the living. Help us see what it is and where to find it." A prayer...