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...Sacks?? bike, which he had locked to a railing outside Barker after searching for a spot on the overcrowded bike rack, was allegedly blocking an entrance...
...Johns Hopkins by Neal Rudenstine, who, himself a scholar of English poetry, made it a special priority to fortify Harvard’s English department. It is certainly not to be taken for granted that great scholars—and great artists—make great teachers, but in Sacks?? case, his exceptionally high CUE ratings and the nearly unqualified praise he often receives from students testify to his immense pedagogical gifts...
Patrick F. Morrissey ’04, for instance—an undergraduate Literature concentrator who attended the reading—remarked that Sacks?? “attentiveness and dedication to the project of poetry—reading it and writing it—is inspiring. I’ve always been impressed by the expansiveness of his mind, his ability to incorporate seemingly divergent poetics into a broader, vital idea of poetry...
...collection also touches on Sacks?? lifelong infatuation with water. An avid swimmer, Sacks once noted in an interview with the Harvard Gazette, “I feel the desire to immerse myself in another element which is uncontrollable, mysterious, beautiful, rhythmic, and which is related to my desire to engage with poetic language as a medium...
...damned serious affair.” These words are particularly apt when applied to a book of poems that, like Necessity, have a certain gestalt element and that lose something when separated from one another. To read Necessity, is to follow a coherent set of Sacks?? ruminations on a variety of subjects—to be a participant, if only fleetingly, in Sacks?? beautifully realized spiritual odyssey. By Stevens’ and, for that matter, just about any other reasonable metric, Necessity is indeed a damned serious affair—and damned good as well...