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...sure. But her poems, which mix autobiography and World War II documentary, struggle to come to terms with the raw human realities of war: "The experience of killing and getting killed." Collected Poems 1943-2004 By Richard Wilbur Unlike his artsier colleagues, Wilbur isn't afraid to bust a rhyme or two, and his tent is a big one: this volume includes children's poems and even show tunes. Always charming, Wilbur is a consoler, not a wallower, who offers those rare and most unfashionable commodities, beauty and pleasure...
...nice to know that poetry has not lost its place in our misguided material world. When we as a society lose interest in poetry, we further alienate ourselves from the spiritual realm of human existence. Perhaps, in addition to free verse, there is room for old-fashioned rhyme and meter. Fashion should not apply to poetry...
Aesop’s gravel-voiced verses abound with extended metaphors, complex rhyme schemes, and passages that just plain don’t make sense, leading critic after critic to bring “the poetry question” forward in discussion of his artistic output...
...musical and lyrical influences, Aesop doesn’t spout off references to Yeats or Ashbery, but instead constructs a veritable Who’s Who of classic rap lyricists, including Slick Rick, Ghostface Killah, and his mentor El-P. Instead of spending hours on end fine-tuning his rhyme scheme to match some stifled polyameter, Aesop’s main concern has always been to find “something I can work with, [...] then to assemble it over a beat...
...booze cruise—“Havana on the Harbor”—lost a combined $18,000 of students’ money. In contrast, the UC’s most successful endeavors have been with either huge concerts featuring Bob Dylan and Busta Rhyme or small-scale events like Friday Movie Nights. These are the UC’s unique events—events that no other organization has the wherewithal to put together. Anything in between these two in scale seems to fall through the cracks, and for good reason. Venues from the Quincy Collective...