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AWARDED. To WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA, 73, masterly Polish poet of the prosaic; the Nobel Prize for Literature; in Stockholm. The Academy described her as the "Mozart of poetry." Her flowing verses and everyday imagery reveal the grace and depth of simplicity...
...would not be fair to be to single out Hall and Kinnell for this prosaic, performative style; it is characteristic of our period. And there is no doubt that these poets are, in their different ways, two of the most accomplished now writing; each knows what he wants to say and can say it well, which is perhaps the definition of a good poet. But if you do read them, be sure to look for the author's reading tour at a theater near you; that's where these poems are most at home...
...bitten hard into the White House by indicating that he will name the President's close friend and adviser Bruce Lindsey, who was treasurer of Clinton's 1990 gubernatorial campaign, as an unindicted co-conspirator, a term popularized during Watergate. With that, Starr attached two scandals by prosaic association. Like the little cookie in Proust, the words bring on a flood of memories, in this case most of them foul...
...songs inhabit emotional extremes--the juice of ecstasy, the razor on the wrist of despair--that someone writing about the middle ground most of us occupy most of the time can sound like a pioneer of the everyday. Peters extracts muted poetry from lives that might seem either prosaic, like taxi drivers (A Room with a View) and people locked in a traffic jam (Waiting for the Light to Turn Green), or dangerous (Circus Girl). Carmelita, in Border Town, leaves her own baby at home "to love somebody else's child" as a nanny: "She keeps her distance...
...again. If the suspect signal should then reappear in the same location, Leigh says, "alarms won't go off, but the computer will send us E-mail." And unlike earlier SETI programs, which sometimes signaled "hits" that after much excitement and analysis turned out to be beeps from prosaic Earthbound or orbiting electronic sources, BETA methodically compares signals from space to signals from the horizon so it can better differentiate between E.T.'s transmissions...