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Singer-songwriters are as old as literature itself. Before any poem was committed to paper, it was the object of the bard, the oral poet, who, accompanied by instrumentation, entertained willing audiences. A little before the turn of the first millennium B.C., the mysterious Homer gave birth to Western literature with song as his medium. For many years thereafter it was unthinkable to hear poetry without accompanying music...
Abbot on his course of study and its future: “Then I feel as if I were a fool to incur such a debt and undergo so much anxiety of mind just to become a rhymester and second-rate poet. I get disheartened and feel tempted to give up the scheme of education; to enter some active business, and throw all my literary tastes to the dogs...
...semipro football player and oil rigger to be menacing, and Keith certainly can be. But he's also funny. Oh, Keith really does believe that the Nashville elite conspire against him because he "doesn't play their game." And he is the poet laureate of righteous indignation, as evidenced by his notorious promise to America's enemies to "put a boot in your ass," in his massive hit Courtesy of the Red, White and Blue (The Angry American). But Keith also knows that playing the role of country's resident rogue--the permanent outsider who speaks manly but unwelcome truths...
...another day the debate over whether a film is anti-Jewish if it repeats a line swathed in 18 to 20 centuries of Gospel tradition. Anyway, in the Pasolini film, with Italians chasing Italians, the curse seems one not of race or religion but of clan. Besides, Pasolini, a poet before he was a filmmaker, would be unlikely to excise a controversial line from a text he felt bound to honor...
...speech exhorting the environmentalist movement to embrace a platform of social justice, Ewuare Osayande, a poet, political activist, and author of 10 books, said “the number one thing you can do for the environment is beat Bush.” The remark drew the loudest applause of the night...