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Eternity: across the sidewalks of Sydney last century, street poet Arthur Stace meticulously chalked his hope. Last Friday evening, eternity was writ large in Sydney's Olympic Stadium at the climax of the Opening Ceremony's hourlong Australian cultural showcase. As tap dancers gave way to 13-year-old Nikki Webster and Djakapurra Munyarryun being levitated together toward the heavens, fireworks erupted across a screen in the shape of the Harbour Bridge, with Stace's copperplate script emblazoned...
...there was the Bobby who all his life was a boyishly relentless self-improver, a quester. A friend remembered him lugging around a heavy anthology of Western literature "like a football." Kennedy said the only writing he liked in it was the story about the French poet Gerard de Nerval, who walked with a lobster on a leash. Someone asked Nerval why he did that. Nerval replied, "He doesn't bark, and he knows the secrets of the deep...
Murray Perahia, the reigning poet of classical piano, first made a name for himself in the '70s with his chaste, sensitive interpretations of Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Schumann and Chopin. But Perahia didn't bond with the Baroque genius of Johann Sebastian Bach until an injury to his right thumb forced him off the concert stage for five nerve-racking years. "I needed it spiritually," he explains...
ARRESTED. BEI LING, 40, Boston-based Chinese poet and editor of Tendency, which publishes young Chinese writers and interviews with Western authors; while visiting Beijing. Days later, Bei's brother, writer HUANG FENG, was also arrested. Charges against them are unclear...
...Annual stipend that Stanley Kunitz, named U.S. poet laureate last week, will receive from the Library of Congress...