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...times, Walcott’s obsession with the effects of age runs the risk of becoming too personal, or even self-indulgent. Details of his physical ailments and his fear of waning virility can detract from his deeper meditations on his hopes, his regrets, and his poetry. At one point, he describes “a furious itch that raises welts” over his body; elsewhere he writes, “My lust is in great health, but, if it happens / that all my towers shrivel to dribbling sand, / joy will still bend the cane-reeds with my pens...
Though Walcott displays his most naked doubts and feelings, his collection never becomes too self-serious. His sense of humor helps to create a variety of tone throughout his work. Walcott reveals a keen wit, peppering his verse with quips such as, “Well, if we burnt, it was at least New York...
...final club scene not diverse enough for you? MIT frats too immature? Maybe it’s time to swagger your sophisticated self to a real club. But before you make the famed 11-minute T ride into Boston, you call up a member of your entourage who’s already on the scene to see if the club’s popping...
...celebrity wearing a relief-aid ribbon on a $12,000 couture gown. The reason bluefin became the go-to fish for chefs from Tokyo to Tampa is that it tastes so good - and more important, from the point of view of restaurant owners, because it looks so good. What self-respecting sushi restaurant would be caught without a thick ruby slab of tuna under its sneeze guard? How would unimaginative hotel chefs provide their guests with poolside tartare platters if they couldn't use bluefin...
...added, will likely only spur a cycle of retaliation. "In the face of a regime that rules by increasingly persistent clampdowns and raids, a person who tries to defend himself does not think of himself as an insurgent. Excuse me, but that is simply a person acting in self-defense," Giorgberidze said by phone from Copenhagen, where she lives in exile along with many former fighters from the North Caucasus regions of Chechnya, Dagestan and Ingushetia. (See pictures of the suicide bombings in Moscow...