Word: rita
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...spent a part of each of his summers in Louisiana, where his mother was raised, and in the summer before college, he began to recognize it as a locus for his poetry. In the summer of 1988, he says, "I fell in love with [the Pulitzer-Prize winning poet] Rita Dove." He read and re-read her collection titled Thomas and Beulah, and then began to listen to his family's stories in a way he hadn't before, with a historic and poetic ear. "I realized I could write about my family, that it was a valid thing...
...indebtedness to other works and to other writers, to teachers and students. There are footnotes in his speech; he reminds me to ask him about the poets he has read, and quotes a friend in Adams House as carefully he would such poets as Seamus Heaney, Derek Walcott, or Rita Dove. He is almost fastidious in acknowledging his influences. "I'm not a T.S. Eliot--I know where I came from," he says. "A lot of different places," But at the same time, he distances himself from labels of membership...
...stay close, and Christina came up big for us," women's Co-Captain Rita Raju said...
From their ridiculously pompous and puerile lyrics to the overly familiar guitar riffs and flourishes, the Electric Love Hogs seem intent on reminding the listener just how unnecessary they are in the metal world. Rita Berardino...
Senior Co-Captain Rita Raju also competed in the triple jump, but failed to qualify for the finals...