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Despite Scurrying Time.(Review)
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EMIL FACKENHEIM ONCE FELL SILENT IN THE MIDST OF a discussion of his work on the Holocaust. Tears rolled down his cheeks, and in his eyes flashed the dark flame of a startling realization. His lips trembling, he explained: "Now I see what I have been trying to do for the last thirty years. I have been trying to undo it, to make it as if it never happened. But it did happen. There is no changing that." [1] The Holocaust cannot be undone any more than the history of Europe can be und...
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(book review)
Midstream
; In the Footsteps of Orpheus: The Life and Times of Miklos Radnoti, by Zsuzsanna Ozsvath. Bloomington & Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2001, 262 pp., $39.95. In the Footsteps of Orpheus is in the best tradition of life and times biographies. Zsuzsanna Ozsvath, a prodigiously learned
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The dead poet: a true-life clash between lethal modernism and classic art.(Hungarian poet, Miklos Radnoti)
The American Enterprise
; Zsuzsanna Ozsvath and I have been spending the last few years translating the poetry of Miklos Radnoti, the great Hungarian poet who died in the Holocaust. In her introduction to our translation, Zsuzsi describes his last days: From 1940-1944, Radnoti was called up three times for slave labor.
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Chapter One from "The Resistances," 'The Life of Poetry.'
The American Poetry Review
; The Fear of Poetry In this moment when we face horizons and conflicts wider than ever before, we want our resources, the ways of strength. We look again to the human wish, its faiths, the means by which the imagination leads us to surpass ourselves. If there is a feeling that something has been
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Poetry _ and its power _enjoys a new popularity.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
; ... underground. Now the coffeeshop has come back, and poetry has come back with it.'' In New York, poet//activist Bob Holman spreads the news that poetry matters. Last April he drew 10,000 people to the People's Poetry Gathering, which featured writers ranging from rocker ...
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THE SOUNDS OF POETRY: A BRIEF GUIDE.(Review)
American Scholar
; THE SOUNDS OF POETRY: A BRIEF GUIDE By Robert Pinsky. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. $16. Do too few people read poetry? Judging by the mood in the small world of American poetry today, it appears that the answer is yes: maybe never before has the art seemed as marginalized, as irrelevant, as it does
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RADNOTI'S TRANSITION TO THOUSAND OAKS JOB IS, WELL, RADICAL.(News)
Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
; Byline: Kirby Lee Special to the Daily News Robert Radnoti displays his passion for running on the license plate of his pickup: RUNNRAD. And ... coach Robert Radnoti gives instructions before a training race at Wildwood Park. Tina Gerson/Daily News
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American poetry in the new century.(COMMENT)
Poetry
; ... of writing, more aware of the nimbus of critical commentary which surrounds and to some extent drives the art. That's the good news: you graduate with a better understanding of the sophistication of your audience and of other writers. At the same time, these ...
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American Poetry in the New Century
Poetry
; ... of writing, more aware of the nimbus of critical commentary which surrounds and to some extent drives the art. That's the good news: you graduate with a better understanding of the sophistication of your audience and of other writers. At the same time, these ...
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Language out of bounds: ultimately, poetry defines the reason most educators are in the field. After all, it is poetry to see a child suddenly read a book by herself.
Leadership
; Who needs poetry, anyway? How about the teachers and administrators who attend in-service workshops with me, the poet? Their bodies may be before me but their minds take a little while to catch up. Those very active minds are still back in their classrooms and offices thinking about their day: Why
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Poetry Love Potions
Parnassus : Poetry in Review
; Poetry Love Potions James Fenton. An Introduction to English Poetry. Farrar, Straus & Giroux 2002. 137 pp. $18.00 Robert Pinsky. The Sounds of Poetry. Farrar, Straus & Giroux 1998. 129pp. $16.00 Edward Hirsch. How to Read a Poem and Fall in Love with Poetry. Harcourt, Inc. 1999. 356 pp.
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