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...been publishing poetry in the US since 1961. In 1990 he received the Pulitzer for The World Doesn’t End, a book of prose poems. He has been called minimalist and surrealist. His poems detail everyday scenes in ways that make them seem inexplicably odd...
Most of the poems in his newest collection, Night Picnic, start by gradually revealing something plain and recognizable, like a fruit stand, a church or a restaurant. Once the scene is set, the poem will ask you to look at it in an odd way, with an effect that is sometimes fantastic in the clearest way. The payoff is the jolt you get from being forced into a new way of seeing that is somehow off—sometimes violently...
...odd to see students frolicking on Friday evening, as if nothing had happened three days before. I went to a little soirée as well, catching up with those I had not seen in months and cracking the occasional joke. Though understandable, the normalcy was a bit disturbing. But one cannot mourn indefinitely...
...It’s been an odd time for me the last few weeks,” Summers said. “The events of Sept. 11 served to create a very different environment...the opposite of an exhilarating time...
Aside from the order on Harvard, the council also passed a motion which would ensure full paychecks to city employees if they are called up to serve in the military.fortune is an odd connection,” Reeves said...