Word: poets
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...real entertainment began when baritone Earle Patriarco's Sergeant Belcore took the stage. A classic miles gloriosus, this Belcore had a vapidity no strutting could conceal. Equally but independently ridiculous was bass Dale Travis' Doctor Dulcamara, a hobo-quack who bore an eerie resemblance to the poet Donald Hall. Dulcamara's vendor antics completely undercut his dramatic entrance and resonant "udite" ("listen!"), and his abracadabra, Darkwing Duck gesturings made one laugh out loud. If it hadn't been for the skillful comic acting of these two, the farcical plot would have been in awkward tension with the gorgeous music. Though...
...Allen Ginsberg has inspired and will continue to inspire all of us," said Catherine A. Solmons, a Boston Phoenix poetry editor who read selections from one of the poet's more famous collections, "Reality Sandwiches." "He was the first to make people feel poets could be pop stars...
Louisa Solane, owner of Grolier Bookstore on Plympton Street, took the stage later in the evening to describe her relation to Ginsberg as a fellow activist and poet...
Several readers Monday night exploded with emotion, recalling memories of the poet himself when he delivered pieces like his revolutionary "Howl!," a tirade of deliberately shocking and sometimes obscene verse...
...Beat generation was a major force in the expedition to free the American voice, the inner American voice," said local poet Bob Buckley. "Everyone's here tonight--the beatniks, the hippies, the yuppies. Everyone recognizes what [Ginsberg's] voice brought about...