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...DIED. DOM MORAES, 65, Indian poet whose work drew on his childhood in Mumbai and his years of bohemian dissipation in London; in Mumbai. While an undergraduate at Oxford, Moraes became the youngest-ever winner of Britain's prestigious Hawthornden Prize for his first collection of poetry, A Beginning, which he published at age 19. Despite moving back to India in 1979, Moraes never mastered an Indian language. He recently told an interviewer: "I don't think I belong anywhere...
...carved in the 1520s for the crypt of Giuliano de' Medici in the Church of San Lorenzo, Florence. Gazing at David, one can't help but think of Andy Warhol's Sleep - the 1963 work in which he trained his 16-mm camera on the slumbering form of the poet John Giorno, coupled, perhaps, with the rich hues and dark settings of a Caravaggio. But never mind. You can dress it up any way you please, but David is nothing more than an hour's footage of a really handsome, really famous footballer fast asleep. And that's enough...
PORTRAIT OF THE POET...
It’s a dreary day, and Slavitt is en route to Somerville to collect signatures. Poet, author, critic, and translator, Slavitt hopes to tack yet another title onto his resume: politician. After collecting his 150th signature last week, he is now the only Republican challenger to Democratic State Representative Timothy J. Toomey, who represents parts of Cambridge and Somerville...
This was but one of the questions I had planned to ask Busta for FM’s weekly “Fifteen Questions” feature—a task I took very seriously. After all, when would I ever again have the chance to meet a poet who penned such moving songs as “Break Ya Neck” and “Light Your Ass on Fire?” Among my planned questions: “What one item in your wardrobe could you not live without...