Word: precisionism
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His words, traditionally improvised, are chosen with a craftsman's precision. Sample: "Anybody ask you who was it sang this song/Tell 'em little Jimmy Rushin' -he's been here and gone."
Harvard's Edwin Honig is one of many contemporary poets who are also full-time teachers at universities and colleges. As such he is in danger of being labeled and passed off as just another member of a group in whose work readers of poetry have come to expect generally...
It is fortunate, therefore, this his linguistic precision does not result in the sort of dryness or lifelessness which is often associated with the work of contemporary academic poets. This is no doubt partly because his facility with language and prosody allow him to fit the words and form of...
Calder's often copied but rarely equalled constructions have been likened to carefully balanced machinery. His engineering background is certainly evident in the precision he gives to the execution of his work and the mathematical balance applied to composition. Furthermore, the materials he uses, wire and sheet steel, are products...
Paternalism. Pétillon stands for "paternalisme," the policy which the Belgians openly proclaim as the secret of their success in the Congo. "The African under stands paternalism." says the Governor with conviction. "It was he who invented it." In the Congo, paternalism means bread but no votes, good government...