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...order to deliver on this intimacy, Lerner has attempted to invent an entirely new form, rather than following the pre-existing structure of the sonnet or writing with the openness of free verse. He strictly regulates meter, punctuation, and stanza breaks, but not without constant and subtle variations, which permit his poems to avoid what Pound denounced as the “sequence of a metronome...
Even more, there’s a prevailing sense that much of contemporary poetry is being written to be read more so than to be heard. With the rising popularity of free-verse in the twentieth century, the visual layout of the poem—line breaks, indentations, punctuation, stanza breaks, spaces, etc.—has become increasingly important, replacing emphasis on the auditory landscape of rhyme and alliteration. The disappearance of these poetic devices, which formerly served to aurally delineate the poem, has resulted in an ambiguity as to how the poem’s visual arrangement informs...
...down to the cities to kill the scumbags." - A stanza of one of his poems about Sarajevo. (Independent, July...
...releases tiptoed into movie theaters. Rather, one of them sauntered - Tyler Perry's I Can Do Bad All by Myself, which ignored the critics and most of the Caucasian movie audience to clean up with $24 million - while the rest staggered. It's as if the longest possible summer stanza (from May 1 to Sept. 7) had finally collapsed from satiety. Hollywood would say it was a grand gorging: all-time box-office records were broken both in North America and abroad...
...Hampshire pushed to even the tally before the half, a final-minute 30-yard try flew over the crossbar. Senior goalie Lauren Mann grabbed a deflected ball on the next possession and held on until the clock ran out.The Crimson’s dominating play continued through the second stanza, especially in the opening minutes, when blasts by Wideroff and sophomore Melanie Baskind nearly extended the Harvard advantage.The Wildcats’ search for the tying goal would not lead to any scoring threats, and Mann’s only save of the game came on a 30-yarder late...