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...monologues. “Literary Men” may not be great literature, but it is finely drawn social commentary. Still, Gessen might do well to pay heed to Belinsky’s advice: “Do not worry about the incarnation of ideas. If you are a poet, your works will contain them without your knowledge—they will be both moral and national if you follow your inspiration freely.” After all, however good Gessen’s ideas may be, they need to reach not just the minds, but the hearts of their...
...such a goal might be reachable—until my comp directors unveiled “The Chart”: an enormous, carefully drawn spiderweb of black spoken culture from the 1950’s to the mid 1990’s. Martin Luther King, Jr. led to rapper-poet Saul Williams led to Grandmaster Flash through an intimidating network of chutes and ladders. Complicating matters, modern hip-hop has a rich history of allusions, invented mythologies, and shorthands. These can be sort of boring, e.g. the aforementioned EPMD (stands for Eric and Parrish Making Dollars). But others are both...
...Save the Queen.” The Agassiz provided intimacy without sacrificing any of the elegance of the production, a late Victorian spoof on the aesthetic movement. The show opens with 20 maidens lamenting their unrequited love for the “fleshly” poet of the town, the sullen Reginald Bunthorne (Roy A. Kimmey III ’09). Modeled after Oscar Wilde, Reginald’s “weird fancy” had somehow alighted on Patience (Annie Levine ’08), the village milk-maid. But Patience, dressed simply and unadorned, claims that...
...words, “live with what was here” before we can prepare ourselves for our lives after graduation. One of the featured artists, Kathleen E. Breeden ’09, thought Sifuentes’ idea was brilliant. “Artists often inspire poets, and poetry inspires visual artists,” she says. “There’s a lot of back and forth.” The poetry of Wordsworth, one of her inspirations, was featured next to her watercolor representations of the countryside. She feels connected to Wordsworth’s poetry...
...manner of topics, including gender, politics, religion, and, ultimately, poetry itself. Paley was laregly known as a short story writer—her “Collected Stories” was a Pulitzer finalist—and as a political activist. Yet she began her career as a poet, studying under W.H. Auden as a young adult. Here, at the end of her life, Paley makes a final return to poetry, and the medium seems appropriate to her task. In her hands, the ability of poetry to distill itself into one thought or one emotion becomes a powerful tool...