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WRIGHT WORKS BEST in the free verse form, where he lets each idea run to the end of its rope. In these poems, he conveys a sense of the supernatural and twists conventional symbolism until it imparts an eerie, ephemeral flavor. Nature can be cruel here. In "The Vestal in the Forum," he writes...
...Along the roadside lay the now commonplace evidence of the country's brutal strife: hacked and mutilated carcasses of the dead, some men, some teenagers. Newsmen could not determine why they were killed, or by whom. But one stripped corpse of a youth, lying face down, had a short rope around the neck?a telltale sign often left behind by the national guard...
...Brog gave their first games as alms before rallying to 3-1 wins Lemmon typicaly embroiled himself in another tough one, dropping his first two games before rallying to take the last three against Tony Hitt, 15-6, 15-5, 15-8. And Jim Lubowitz regretfully let too much rope slip away to lose, 15-6, 15-9, 17-14. Matt Hoffman, Lubowitz's opponent, played number four for the Big Green last year before dropping to seven this year...
...selected to work on the prestigious journal. Law firms fight fiercely for the chance to pay them starting salaries that top $40,000. Now all those who prize and depend on this carefully structured system are in an uproar. The Review has voted to throw a short rope to minority students who have not made it quite as high as their white classmates, and critics, including most of the faculty, are decrying the fall of the "last bastion of meritocracy...
...some moment in the water he must have realized that he would not live if he continued to hand over the rope and ring to others. He had to know it, no matter how gradual the effect of the cold. In his judgment he had no choice. When the helicopter took off with what was to be the last survivor, he watched everything in the world move away from him, and he deliberately let it happen...