Word: reader
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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this poem is the reader...
...editors drag our aching bones out of bed, suck some nicotine into our already charred lungs, and swill down a brand of coffee best kept in government-approved drums with yellow and black warning labels on their sides. All in quest of the product that you, the comfortable reader, now hold in your freshly manicured hands. So you damn well better enjoy...
Moses, like all other serious students of African bushcraft, is a reader of droppings, an analyst and commentator on dung. As he and Olentwala whistled the cattle along, he remarked now and then on the evidence that lay in the forest paths and meadows. Here a Dik-dik passed in the early morning. There a waterbuck had paused. Everywhere in East Africa such expertise is encountered...
From a down-and-outer in Central America to a neurotic glandular case from New York, everyone seems to have their own answer to the Big Questions of Life. And so after wading through the varied and conflicting Weltanschauungen described above, the reader may be tempted to appeal to some sort of higher authority. As continual creator of this column, Dewitt has the advantage of having existed everywhere since the dawn of time (not to mention to added plus of owning a fantastic collection of Maurice Chevalier records). So what does this eternal sage think of life, love, death...
...sisters struggle against the barrier that divides reality and fiction, and so does the reader of Fuentes' Orchids, which the American Repertory Theater staged in 1982. For Fuentes and the three other writers featured in Drama Contemporary's Latin America, the barrier gives way to a "New Realism." Weakness and strength, male and female--seemingly antithetical forces--merge, furthering exploration and transcendence of artistic and human limitations...