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Here is how the poet Brooks Haxton, in his fine new translation of Heraclitus ("Fragments: The Collected Wisdom of Heraclitus," Viking, 99 pages, $19.95) puts the thought...
DIED. ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH, 94, lyric writer and poet, enduring romantic and, like her husband Charles, a pioneering aviator; in Passumpsic, Vt. Lindbergh was seven months pregnant when she and her husband set a transcontinental speed record in 1930. Two years later, their son Charles Jr. was kidnapped and killed in one of the era's most chronicled news events. (See EULOGY, below...
...radically trimmed ones, and not many people believe that. Fresh evidence to the contrary can now be found in Call If You Need Me (Vintage; 300 pages; $13), a gathering of the author's previously uncollected nonfiction, plus five unpublished short stories. Three of them were found by the poet Tess Gallagher, Carver's companion for the last decade of his life and wife for his last few months, in the home they shared at Port Angeles, Wash.; the other two turned up among Carver's papers at Ohio State University. In a foreword, Gallagher notes that she had reservations...
...MIGHT LIKE IT Looking for a male weepie with art-house credentials? Julian Schnabel's sprawling biography of the Cuban poet and novelist Reinaldo Arenas spans a half-century, two countries, two languages, two extremes of regimes. Batista's rapacious tyranny keeps most people poor; Castro's stern, homophobic communism keeps them miserable. Bardem, who was excellent as the crippled husband in Pedro Almodovar's Live Flesh, plays a noble fellow suffering at the whip hand of a sadistic dreamboat like Johnny Depp, then wilting tragically from AIDS. It's a serious actor's dream role...
...list is nurturing a better appreciation of the limits of individualism. No child is an island, to paraphrase the poet. Strengthening social ties helps build communities and protect individuals against stress...