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Edibility. In the end, we consume the creation, take it into our own body. Its edibility not only brings us closer to the work by eliminating the awkward distances between, for instance, the painter and viewer or poet and reader, but the ability to internalize the object (the meal) places us in a position to be seriously, viscerally, even gastro-intestinally affected...
Even if the paper printed long reviews of every movie showing in Boston, a reader might not decide to see a movie until weeks after the review had appeared, Tarter said. In a city where movies have long runs, it makes no sense to run a long review, unless a writer wishes to write about a movie for his own reasons, he added...
...following shows what a reader would find in The Phoenix every week that Bob, Carol, Ted, and Alice was showing in Boston: "Two young married couples find that the cost of sexual and marital experimentation is higher than they had reckoned and as they beat a quick retreat from philosophical bed swapping, Hollywood also retreats from the serious moral issues at hand. Only some deft humor and several fine performances save...
...well-written, informative: they put you on to recent works by good but often overlooked contemporary artists, and offer not only analysis of their work but a few insights into what the writers and poets themselves are thinking about and the direction their work is taking. It gives the reader a firm impression of the artists as well as the particular work under review, which is especially helpful when the author's name may sound only vaguely familiar. Particularly good were Jonathan Galassi's review of Richard Tillinghast and Peggy Rizza on Galway Kinnell. Their excitement over these authors...
...know that!" could have been avoided. The poem is prefaced by a note from the Poetry Society of America informing the author that his poems did not receive enough votes to bring him in as a member. One wonders whether the note was included to convince the reader of the Poetry Society's insufferable blindness, or whether the poem was included to illustrate the reasons for the rejection...