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...need to attach human faces to his grief. The narrator, like the author, is a 43-year-old writer named Tim. O'Brien camouflages autobiography with fiction but is not shy about personalizing his intentions. "I want you to feel what I felt," he tells the reader. "I want you to know why a story- truth is truer sometimes than a happening-truth...
...make up for lost time, she has since published three additional volumes. She writes with such easy eloquence that it is hard to believe she has not already enjoyed several prolific decades. The Kingfisher was an outstanding debut -- mature, allusive verse that assumed a reader who had traveled and read a bit. In a climate of minimalists and confessional poets, it was a nourishing refreshment, and it won a well-deserved National Book Award (back when that group saw fit to applaud poetry...
...might have become a parody of the ornate Gerard Manley Hopkins. Westward, thankfully, reverses that tendency. It still helps to know that Mulciber is another name for the fire god Vulcan, and that punto in aria is a kind of lace. But these poems speak directly to the reader, as if the writer had discarded the scrim of erudition...
...fact, your desire to relate the content of the plays reveals that discussion of "innovative" interpretations is not the actual aim of your reviews. They are designed rather to tell the reader if the show is worth his or her time, and what to expect when the lights go up. This perfectly all right, but it is not the in-depth discussion you propose...
...like David and Maddie of Moonlighting -- coming together, going apart, ever off balance -- but without the humor or irony. Every single movement of the two characters is chronicled, like a time-motion study. When Catherine is done preparing a meal and cleaning it up, a recurring activity, the reader is left exhausted and with dishpan hands...