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...while still an undergraduate. Since his graduation and his selection as Class Poet, Ashbery has won nearly every prestigious poetry award in the nation, including the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry for his 1975 volume Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror. But accolades aside, Ashbery remains one of the most important poets today for his renovation of poetic forms, constant self-examination and personal and artistic renewal. As he wrote in “Houseboat Days,” “To praise this, blame that, / Leads one subtly...
...never really left me. I still felt her presence.” Unable to get the image of her mother out of her mind, Gerolimatos decided to put it on canvas. “Painting my mother’s portrait helped me get through the pain of her death. She was so beautiful,” she says...
...Civilization is declining, says social scientist James Q. Wilson, and the reason is the collapse of the traditional family structure. On March 21, HarperCollins will publish "The Marriage Problem: How Our Culture Has Weakened Families." Says his publisher, "Wilson offers an alarming portrait of modern marriage and argues that we must reassess our values in order to preserve the strength of family in a culture in which divorce and single parenthood has become more widespread than ever...
...consort pregnant. This is not good news even in a poly-gamous world. Early on, the narrator wonders whether she should be telling us all about Genji's naughty doings. "No doubt," she solicits, "I must now beg everyone's indulgence for my effrontery in painting so wicked a portrait...
McGahern has created a vivid portrait of a peaceful corner of a demanding world. An uncomfortable conversation between Ruttledge and the leader of the local IRA chapter reveals the conflict between devoting oneself to the community and confronting the outside world. “Ruttledge knew that as he was neither a follower nor a leader he must look useless or worse than useless to this man of commitment and action. As far as Jimmy Joe was concerned he might as well be listening to the birds like an eejit on the far side of the lake...