Word: poets
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...most prominent figures in the history of West Cambridge is poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. According to historical documents, Longfellow wrote the majority of his poems while living at 105 Brattle St., Known today as the "Longfellow House," a national historic site...
...very slowly "manipulating" a long fluorescent tube. You don't so much enjoy this show as endure it; you get through it. Then, in the coffee shop, you peruse the catalog and find such hyperbolic drivel as this, by co-curator Kathy Halbreich: "Like the great 17th century metaphysical poet John Donne, who, faced with a world of expanding information and concomitant chaos, mastered paradox through meditation.Bruce Nauman creates art that is a drama of a particularly physical sort of imagining." Well, yes: remember Black Balls, 1969, eight minutes of Nauman's fingers rubbing black pigment in close...
Armed with nine different pens, including gold and silver in addition to basic black, the poet autographed his latest book Journals: Mid-Fifties 1954-1958, as well as earlier collections, posters, admirers' poetry notebooks and even a Bridgewater College student's paper on Ginsberg's famous poem "Howl...
...poet decorated all his autographs with a mysterious "AH" enclosed in a circle, symbolizing a Japanese Zen one-syllable summary of afterlifeappreciation. He even drew sunflowers reminiscentof his poem "Sunflower Sutra" for some lucky fans...
...taken my blues and gone," the poet Langston Hughes once lamented. Well, Langston, you wouldn't believe where rock performers are trying to take your precious blues in the '90s. British guitarist Eric Clapton's prim but praiseworthy blues album From the Cradle has sold 3 million copies so far, and he's starting the second leg of his successful concert tour in August. Dan Aykroyd, who donned dark glasses to become one of the Blues Brothers on TV show Saturday Night Live and in movies, now helps run the House of Blues, a Hard Rock Cafe-style restaurant chain...