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United States Government Barbara Kingsolver
1,550 wordsThe etymological relationship between "father" and "homeland" goes back to the Latin words for both: pater (father) and patria (country). Fatherland, Vater land, paris... all these words meaning "home country" bring to mind fatherly images. Likewise, the words "patriot" and "patriotic" echo "patriarch", or the grandfatherly head of a family or clan. The drafters of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution are lovingly known as the "founding fathers"; first president George Washington...
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University Of California Los Angeles
1,773 words... form of plates "with holes for people who don't like soup, " ice buckets "with cracks that leak out the water so all you have is ice, " bowls "to put your old socks in. " (Dormer, p. 118) For Voulkos, the crack is the destiny of the clay, the event within the object. "I can't make a bowl without a crack. All my ice buckets are cracked. I got a lot of broken plates that I glue back. I like that line. " (Dormer, p. 119) During the same period he made over 200 stacks, 4 feet high and under, and...
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William Carlos Williams Quot Quot
3,547 wordsNicholas Everett Olson, Charles (1910 - 70), was born and raised in Worcester, Massachusetts, and educated at Wesleyan University and Harvard, where he studied American civilization. During the Second World War he worked for the Democratic Party and for the Office of War information as assistant chief of the Foreign Language Division. His first two books, Call Me Ishmael (1947), a study of Melville Moby-Dick, and The Mayan Letters (1953), written to Robert Creeley from Mexico where he was studyi...
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Allen Ginsberg Spoken Word
1,002 wordsWhat [did Interviews David Ossman What [did you learn from]... the Black Mountain people, and [William Carlos] Williams? From Williams, mostly how to write in my own language how to write the way I speak rather than the way I think a poem ought to be written to write just the way it comes to me, in my own speech, utilizing the rhythms of speech rather than any kind of metrical concept. To talk verse. Spoken verse. From Pound, the same concepts that went into the Imagists poetry the idea of the i...
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Quot And Quot Selected Poems
1,827 wordsEdith Jarolim In his later poems, Blackburn came to wear his learning lightly; in his generally short early lyrics, his erudition is still on display. (Pounds example was not likely to have discouraged him in that regard. ) The young man who wrote the lovely " Center de Not" and satirical " For Mercury, Patron of Thieves: A Laurel" had clearly done his homework in Proven? al and Greek poetics. But he was also taking lessons from such American masters as William Carlos William...
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