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This awareness of his age, his accomplishments, as well as his shortcomings recurs throughout the collection. Williams’ reflections on his work more often than not lead him to a kind of melancholy. In “Apes,” he wonders, “Could I have passed through my own golden age and not even known I was there?” What is more, Williams acknowledges the wide breadth of his literary knowledge, but also hints that such erudition is not necessarily satisfying or comforting. In the same poem, he writes...
...Howard Hughes Medical Institute internship program, which she participated in for three years before focusing wholly on her art in her senior year. Though she now has a secondary in Neurobiology, her engagement with her art has increased in intensity over the past two years, culminating in her work for her senior thesis...
...evident from the introspective nature of her paintings, Vu’s relationship with art is an intense expression of deeply felt, personal emotion. As she says, “A painting is everything in your world, deposited in that work: everything you think, believe, and know. Or don’t know.” Yet Vu’s work is not inaccessible. Instead, it almost teases the viewer, speaking on many different levels. Vu describes her own work best: “I suppose I don’t make conversation, but whisper secrets to myself...
...Wait,” Williams does not limit himself to a single theme or style. He meditates on subjects ranging from war to desire, from nature to literature. While he often employs the long, fluid lines characteristic of so much of his work, as in his poems “Brain” and “Apes,” he also tries out more chiseled, succinct forms in poems such as “Vertigo” and “Rats.” Even as he displays his virtuosity as a writer, however, Williams remains humble...
...that his own “I” is, like Goethe’s, not entirely trustworthy. However, although he casts doubt on the reliability of this subjective “I,” it is in fact the apparent genuineness of his voice that makes his work throughout the collection so transfixing...