Word: poets
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...Odor of menace" is an apt description of Stone's fictional atmospherics. His people either find themselves in, or get themselves into, situations of understated but hair-raising peril. In Porque No Tiene, Porque Le Falta, two druggy friends of an equally druggy American poet living in Mexico want to take him to see a nearby volcano. "The way," the poet is told once the trip has begun, "is to go up the mountain and make it all complete." In Helping, a man sober for 18 months starts drinking again. He tells his distraught wife that "this drink...
...Stone's stories is in fact called Absence of Mercy; nearly all his people believe themselves cut off from any possible solace and forgiveness. The novella Bear and His Daughter portrays the explosive meeting of two such lost souls: a drunken poet on a reading tour in the Mountain States and his illegitimate daughter, who is now 31 and a park ranger packing a pistol. Her boyfriend, fearing what may come of the father's visit, tells her, "I hope God helps you. You should...
APPOINTED. ROBERT PINSKY, 56, poet and author of a 1994 translation of the Inferno that put Dante on U.S. best-seller lists; as the nation's poet laureate; in Washington...
...next piece was Williams' bassoon concerto, The Five Sacred Trees. According to Williams' program notes on his piece, it was inspired by the writings of poet Robert Graves about the prayers that ancient Celtic tribes incanted before felling a tree. While each tree had its own prayer, Williams invokes five: the great oak, Tortan, yew, ash and the Dathi tree. The work was commissioned by the New York Philharmonic for bassoonist Judith LeClair. In this week-end's performance, the solo bassoon part was played by the BSO's principal bassoonist Richard Svoboda, who has been with the orchestra since...
Such insight is worth the fraction of a cent it costs each of us. There should be some incentive for poets to think and write about America, and we should each be proud to contribute our tax money to the cause. Too often, we do not have the time, or the ability, to think and write for ourselves. We should be proud that our country has chosen to reward those who do have the ability. Moreover, we should be especially proud of the brave Robert Pinsky, our newest Poet Laureate...