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...Canadian poet and McGill professor Anne Carson,a guest commentator featured in each of the NobelLegacy specials, disagrees with Herschbach'soptimistic analysis. She points out the negativeeffects of technological developments, likeindustrial pollution, and expresses concern overthe impacts of science on human life...
...most prominent figures in the history of West Cambridge is poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. According to historical documents, Longfellow wrote the majority of his poems while living at 105 Brattle St., Known today as the "Longfellow House," a national historic site...
...very slowly "manipulating" a long fluorescent tube. You don't so much enjoy this show as endure it; you get through it. Then, in the coffee shop, you peruse the catalog and find such hyperbolic drivel as this, by co-curator Kathy Halbreich: "Like the great 17th century metaphysical poet John Donne, who, faced with a world of expanding information and concomitant chaos, mastered paradox through meditation.Bruce Nauman creates art that is a drama of a particularly physical sort of imagining." Well, yes: remember Black Balls, 1969, eight minutes of Nauman's fingers rubbing black pigment in close...
Armed with nine different pens, including gold and silver in addition to basic black, the poet autographed his latest book Journals: Mid-Fifties 1954-1958, as well as earlier collections, posters, admirers' poetry notebooks and even a Bridgewater College student's paper on Ginsberg's famous poem "Howl...
...poet decorated all his autographs with a mysterious "AH" enclosed in a circle, symbolizing a Japanese Zen one-syllable summary of afterlifeappreciation. He even drew sunflowers reminiscentof his poem "Sunflower Sutra" for some lucky fans...