Word: weres
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Although many of these writers witnessed the disintegration of their own lives, they often were able to exorcise their pain through their poetry.
According to Eileen Simpson, poet John Berryman's widow, the seeds of the poets' destruction were sown early in their childhood. For example, Berryman's crippling emotional problems were caused in part by his difficult relationship with his mother, she writes in her book Poets in Their Youth.
Berryman was not unique among the earlier poets in having a troubled childhood. Delmore Schwartz's relationship with his mother was also occasionally explosive, Simpson writes. And Robert Lowell hinted at the sadness of his childhood in his later confessional poems, one of which describes his fictional stay in a...
Members of the company, including Stockard Channing '65, Fran Lebowitz and James Taylor, were joined by guest performers such as Brooke Shields and Reynolds Price, who read a poem that he had written for the occasion.
"They beat us down the court. They got a lot of fastbreak layups," said Harvard Co-Captain Scott Gilly, who scored no points after entering the game averaging 7.8 points per game. "I think that had to do with us breaking down in the offensive end. We were out of...