Word: witnessed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...toes the whole way. As I approach the thankfully unoccupied door, I try to dredge up what little knowledge of hip-hop culture I have. It's Nothing but a G-Thang. G-Funk--step to this, I dare you. Wu-Tang Clan ain't nuthin to fuck wit'. Inter- galacticplanetary-intergalactic... How does the rest go? I tuck my Abercrombie T-shirt into my Gap denim shorts and walk through the door...
Using poems of metrical dexterity that are filled with wit, subtle humour and a vast vocabulary, Hollander brings many common poetic themes to light in Figurehead in admittedly startling forms. Experimenting with various meters, dictions and forms, Hollander's poems continually strive to discover, in the process, the perfect poetic language (or what Hollander terms "the back room of meaning...
...WIT'S BEGINNING...
MARGARET EDSON seems less concerned with being the next Eugene O'Neill than making sure a group of five-year-olds has a tidy work space. On learning that she had won the Pulitzer Prize for her play, Wit, the Atlanta kindergarten teacher's immediate response was to keep cleaning her classroom. Edson wrote Wit in 1991, when she was working at a bicycle shop. The unsentimental story of a woman dying of ovarian cancer wended its way through various regional theaters before ending up off-Broadway six months ago. Edson, 37, says she has no firm plans to write...
THERE'S NO PRICE TO BE FOUND ON THE COVER OF McSweeney's a Farmers' Almanac-style compendium of smarty-pants wit and media industry critique. In its place, "If words are to be used as design elements then let designers write them." David Eggers, the 20-something founder and publisher of "McSweeney's" introduces his latest creation in a telling mixture of anachronism and irony: "People, people stop blaming yourselves! Have you forgotten: Timothy McSweeney's Blues/Jazz Odyssey? (For short say 'McSweeney' s') Known also as: `Pollyanna's Bootless Errand. Now fix your collar--Today could be your...