Word: poetics
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...ball to first. That blunder allowed the winning run to reach the plate and put the Orioles behind, three games to one. In the final game the Oriole pitcher and first baseman conspired to commit two errors on a single play (shades of Marvelous!) to permit the last, poetic Met run to score. The Oriole manager, a stocky fellow named Weaver, even began to look and act like a funny old fellow named Casey Stengel, who used to run the Mets. During the fourth game, in a transport of fury, Weaver was banished from the field. But nothing could hide...
...Abbey Road then is an album of the Beatles at the very height of their creative powers, a combination of extraordinarily strong songs written and performed with a kind of relentless assured zeal, and-on Side two in particular-infused with a mature and compassionate poetic vision, No wonder the Beatles are still Number One on every rock freak's list...
Brancusi had found his own style. From then on, he began those drastic reductions of natural shapes that left the human head an egglike form on which the features are barely traced, that found in a delicate wafer of blue, mottled marble the poetic essence of fish, that outlined in metal and stone the soaring flight of a bird...
...Baillie is a world in which light plays freely; in man's world light is confined refracted, or invented (for instance, the use of lighted store interiors as a metaphor for death in Mass for the Sioux Dead ). Baillie's most frequent subject is the interaction between a poetic Nature and an ugly modernity, producing a restriction on the play of light...
Unlike the army of Hemingway romanticists who cultivate fighters to show off their feel for the sport, Gardner has a real understanding of the ring and the nameless people who are scarred by it. With a poetic touch and dry swift phrasing, he has created a remarkable portrait of a marginal, subterranean world in which two fighters and a manager occupy numbing neutral corners in the struggle for life...