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...Elizabeth Bishop: “I suddenly felt how repressed she was, how distant, how self involved—how nature wasn’t really there, it was just Elizabeth Bishop floating through the world in this depressive haze...
...unique perspective to offer. Always willing to take a controversial stance in her political and cultural commentary, Paglia is also uncompromising in her aesthetic judgments. She conspicuously—and, she said, purposefully—did not include the works of respected poets like Robert Frost, T.S. Eliot, Elizabeth Bishop, and Seamus Heaney in her anthology (see the Sidebar). Hearing her reasons for their exclusion is important. Her analysis of 43 of the world’s most overrated poems would be delightful, infuriating, and a required read for anyone who cares about poetry today...
...staid world of poetry, where words can be weapons, two of its biggest guns appear to have engaged in battle. Porter University Professor Helen Vendler has challenged Alice Quinn, The New Yorker’s poetry editor, over her release of previously unpublished poetry by Elizabeth Bishop, calling the manner of Quinn’s editing and publication “reprehensible.” According to The New York Times, Vendler’s scathing review of “Edgar Allan Poe & The Juke-Box: Uncollected Poems, Drafts and Fragments” in the April 3 issue...
...moment the puck dropped, Maine controlled the tempo. Stringing together a series of tape-to-tape passes and maintaining an aggressive forecheck, the Black Bears forced Harvard to spend the majority of the opening frame protecting its own net. On the other side of the ice, goaltender Ben Bishop and the Maine defense moved the puck quickly out of their zone, limiting the Crimson to seven shots in the first period. “We weren’t able to establish our forecheck, [and] we weren’t able to sustain any type of pressure in the offensive...
...Bishop of Hong Kong, Joseph Zen Ze-kiun, becomes Cardinal as the Vatican tries to walk a delicate path toward re-establishing diplomatic relations with Beijing. The Pope had invited four Chinese bishops to the Synod of Bishops in October, only to see the government block their departure at the last minute. Many in Rome?s office of the Secretary of State have pushed for a more flexible approach to the Chinese, who until now only recognize the so-called "Patriotic Church" made up of Catholics not obedient to Rome. China also insists on the Vatican cutting ties with Taiwan...