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...some of his other poems. Another large portion of “Rain” is composed of mysterious narratives. Paterson’s mystery, however, does not demand a literary interpretation or decoding, but simply asks to be absorbed, as a child might listen to a fairy tale. The opening poem of the volume, “Two Trees,” tells a story of Don Miguel who grafts an orange tree to a lemon tree. The hybrid orange-lemon tree mysteriously brings forth “two lights in the dark leaves” before...
Imagine a world in which every fairy tale collides. Cinderella wants to go to the ball, Jack has to sell his cow for magic beans, Little Red Riding Hood brings food to her grandmother’s, Rapunzel is stuck in her tower, hoping for a prince. There is also a baker and his wife, both of whom have a curse put upon them for transgressions long...
Martin McDonagh’s “The Pillowman” tells a tale of childhood trauma, violent political oppression, and a writer whose twisted stories gruesomely come to life. Yet in spite of its dark subject matters, it’s ingeniously hilarious...
...believe that this kind of story which is so dark, about people getting tortured and censored and executed, can only be told through humor and poetry,” Radulian says. “We’re basically treating it as a fairy tale and enacting it as a fairy tale, and like all fairy tales, it’s based on something true in society—psychological things, trends, dark undercurrents...
...central focus of “The Warlords,” despite all of the action scenes and moral pontificating, is the exploration of relationships between men who love each other. With its epic scope and emotional sensibility, Chan has crafted an awe-inspiring tale of the human condition...