Word: poets
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...less Luciferian: that nature, to the artist, is like carnal desire to the saint. It is a trap, a lower substitute for higher ecstasy, an occasion of sin. He knows it is beautiful, but he must still banish it from his art (as Plato urged the banishment of the poet from the ideal republic) because it provokes irrational thoughts and undisciplined emotions...
This striking poem is the final realization of the book's rather cryptic title. In the end, the poet is left only with the "burned house" of her own, singular body, "holding my cindery, non-existent/radiant flesh. Incandescent...
Atwood saves herself from the feminist/political trap because as an artist, she remains fascinated by subversiveness, avoiding a man-evil, woman-good dichotomy. The poet is interested, instead, in the duality of the individual, and especially the female, self. She articulates this well in "The Loneliness of the Military Historian," describing a female scholar's fascination with the "masculine...
...swift cut to the horse's neck and a hunk of armor crashes down like a tower. Fire against metal. A poet might say: romance against banality. When awake, I know better...
...Ireland settled into the Adams House Senior Common Room yesterday as 30 people listened to Irish poet John Montague read 10 poems from his latest book, John Montague: Collected Poems...