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...same light. Nevermore will he simply be a talented but crazed author whose work reflected this juxtaposition of character. Instead, after seeing the aforementioned musical, I will empathize with the early loss of loved ones, the sense of stark loneliness, and the tortured mind that defined this misunderstood poet. Through “Nevermore,” director Joe DeMita is able to convey the Gothic writer as twisted but human, a man whose depth of emotion, experience, and feeling typifies the inevitable solitude of a writer...
Winner of the 1992 Booker Prize for The English Patient, poet and novelist Michael Ondaatje, delivered the fall Morris Gray Lecture yesterday to students and the general public, a break from tradition for the semi-annual lecture series’ tendency to host poets exclusively, English Department members said...
Ondaatje said in a discussion following his readings how he began as a poet and “never imagined writing a novel...
...poetic devices, which formerly served to aurally delineate the poem, has resulted in an ambiguity as to how the poem’s visual arrangement informs the way it’s to be read aloud. Since the primary sense being used in reciting poems today is sight, the poet has shifted his aims to stimulate the eye, at times privileging it over...
...voice so chronically self-indulgent that by the end of this monumental poem even its most grandiose aural gestures are reduced to ambient noise. Alexander has chosen a deeply unusual setting for his epic: both Sri Lanka and old-fashioned nautical adventuring are idiosyncratic interests for an American poet. The island, despite its physical loveliness and tragic recent history, is yet to inspire a fitting work of poetry or prose, and for all its ambition, “The Sri Lankan Loxodrome,” does not do justice to its subject...