Word: proses
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Almost at the End demonstrates why. A collection of prose and poetry, the book is nicely timed with the reappearance of Yevtushenko, 53, as a prominent spokesman for Gorbachev's liberalization campaign. The new work is theatrical but tame. The targets are either old monsters or the class of unreconstructed bureaucrats whom the new regime has pledged to replace. The daring urgency of earlier poems, such as The Heirs of Stalin and Babi Yar, has given way to all- purpose indictments of totalitarianism and effusions of universality. "I ; would like to be born in every country,/ have a passport...
Roger Clemens is a great baseball player; neither he nor his co-author, ace baseball reporter Peter Gammons, are great writers. But the book's decent enough to read to your children. Imagine a five-year-old Dykstra fan hearing this piece of prose from his hero before bed: "We just said, 'Fuck it.' But it didn't work. Kevin Gross shoved the bats up our asses. We got shutout...
...name's Charles Doorite," said a young man with half glasses and full smirk. "I've been working seriously with prose since I was five. Recently, I've become personally acquainted with many New York writers through my mother and internships at The Paris Review and The Atlantic. Kanopf is bringing out the first of my three completed novels next year...
...also holds hands with Orson Welles and spends some wee, small hours of the morning with Frank Sinatra. The armor of such black, white and occasional gray knights is not deeply penetrated. Vanderbilt is more absorbed in her younger self, which she encases in a shell of hard, polished prose. It is a stylish, though distinctly cool, portrayal of the realities of a fairy-tale life...
...worst thing The Thanatos Syndrome reveals about him, I think, is that he isn't half as "cool" as he once was. That moniker's an oxymoron, by the way. Dostoevsky was never "cool"; his passion propelled him. But it's precisely Percy's understated anger that makes his prose, at its very best, bristle. There's a quiet, marvelous moment at the end of The Thanatos Syndrome where the angst of our condition comes pouring through...