Word: rima
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Michael P. Abate Deborah A. Abeles Brian T. Abrams Michael S. Abramson Jaylaan Ahmad-Llewellyn Fahim Ahmed Stephanie N. Ajudua Rima Al-Mokarrab Michael E. Aldous Georgia N. Alexakis Jen J. B. Allen James A. Allison Elise B. Alschuler Mia C. R. Alvar Maneesh R. Amancharla Christopher A. Amar Jessie M. Amberg Richard H. Amberg Caitlin E. Anderson Blair M. Andresen Becky M. Antar Azunna E. Anyanwu Christina E. Anzuoni Patrick R. Aquino Ethan D. S. Ard Adam I. Arenson Eric R. Ashley David C. Atherton William F. Austin Erin L. Autry Irina Babushkina Daniel B. Baer Anna M. Baldwin...
...Rima Al-Mokarrab '00, it wasn't a sinking ship but diplomatic paperwork that blocked her departure for far-away lands...
...scientists always agree. "Folic acid is a perfect example," says Rima Apple, a historian at the University of Wisconsin at Madison and author of Vitamania: Vitamins in American Culture. In 1989 the recommended dietary allowance for folic acid was cut from 400 micrograms for all adults to 200 micrograms for men and 180 micrograms for women, because that was the lowest amount that would stave off a nutritional deficiency. At the same time, however, new studies were showing that higher doses of folic acid could prevent crippling birth defects during pregnancy and ward off strokes and heart attacks in older...
Merrill was gleefully eclectic: he wrote sonnets and sestinas and haikus and epigrams; he worked in heroic couplets and terza rima and the Rubaiyat stanza. But he was perhaps most himself when fabricating his own unorthodox verse forms. He was a born matchmaker, tirelessly contriving a happy marriage of form and content, and the result was a heady range of tonal variations. A Merrill poem might begin like this...
Even more impressive than PInsky's infusion of life into the translation is that fact that he is also faithful to the Inferno's original interlocking rhyme scheme, called terza rima (aba, bcb, cdc, etc). Pinsky avoids he possible pitfalls of this demanding form and triumphs with crisp and inventive rhymes that not only meet the demands of form but also bring the poem to life...