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Pulitzer Prize-winning author and former Agee Professor of Social Ethics Robert Coles ’50 is back with a new book, Bruce Springsteen’s America: The People Listening, a Poet Singing. Dr. Coles describes the effect of Springsteen’s music on his audience while demonstrating why Springsteen deserves a place among America’s greatest literary talents, including Walt Whitman, William Carlos Williams, Dorothea Lange and Walker Percy, specifically focusing on their commonality of inspiration: America’s common people. In Coles’ interpretation, Springsteen embodies American culture...
He’s a self-taught poet who loves to understand the world, put its rhythms to music—not a bad goal for us heady ones who inhabit college campuses for varying lengths of time...
Foster reads from The Arch-Poet, 1915-1939, the final installment of his factually rich two-volume biography, W.B. Yeats: A Life. 6 p.m. Harvard Bookstore...
...Nemerov in New York City in 1923. Her father was the director of Russek's, a Manhattan fur and fashion emporium that had been founded by her mother's family and made them rich. Arbus, her younger sister Renee and her older brother Howard--later a U.S. poet laureate--grew up on Park Avenue. She spoke once of realizing the existence of another world, a forbidden zone, when her nanny took her to Central Park to see a shantytown built there by unemployed...
...Malley), Wode-Douglass becomes obsessed with publishing work bearing his name. The mainspring of Carey's story is a fascinating statement by Max Harris, editor of Angry Penguins, years after the original hoax was exposed: "I still believe in Ern Malley." In Carey's rendering, Bob McCorkle, the fictitious poet, is not only believable but actually comes to life?and then proceeds to haunt Chubb, his creator, to a gruesome end. It is a thoroughly gripping melodrama, rich with implications about the power of the imagination?and the greater power of fate...