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Book review: 'The FSG Book of Twentieth-Century Latin American Poetry'
Los Angeles TimesThe FSG Book of Twentieth-Century Latin American Poetry An Anthology Edited by Ilan Stavans Farrar, Straus & Giroux: 729 pp., $50 Here's the answer to a hypothetical "Jeopardy" query: "Who are Pablo Neruda and, um…?" And now, the question:...Tags: Entertainment, Music, Diplomacy, Nicaragua, Book
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Thoughts from Dr. Joe: Thinking about Barbara
Girls can do anything, part two. Barbara Schuman was the brightest kid in the neighborhood. She excelled in school, could throw a ball as far as any boy, climb a tree, run like the wind, and was prettier than a picture. Barbara believed that everything...Tags: Colleges and Universities, Education, Fiction, Texas, Hudson River
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Thoughts from Dr. Joe: Contemplating heroes, Part 2
Donner joined me for a cup of tea. I welcomed the company as a respite from a dreary morning. “What are you reading?” he asked. “Stories about King Arthur,” I said. “Tell me one!” I told him about Percival, the... -
'Eastbound and Down' recap: 'I love you, Dad'
Show TrackerKenny (you know what word belongs here) Powers is getting serious. For those keeping score at home (I'm guessing about 90% of "Eastbound and Down" viewers), this episode contained nary a topless woman -- only men; most notably, Stevie. Of...... -
The Siren's Call: Bigfoot and secret societies
Remember Robert Bly's bestselling 1990 book "Iron John: A Book About Men"? It was the manifesto for a movement -- a call for men to get back in touch with their primal selves. Go out in the woods, strip off your shirt, bang on a drum and howl at the moon....Tags: Entertainment, Nevada, Mystery (genre), Lifestyle and Leisure, Science
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W.S. Merwin is green as U.S. poet laureate
Los Angeles TimesReporting from Maui — We've been batting our way through W.S. Merwin's yard for a couple hours, swatting mosquitoes in the streambed under the dark wet canopy of towering, philodendron-draped mangoes and looking at some 700 species of palm trees,...Tags: Seamus Heaney, Wildlife, Adrienne Rich, Vietnam War (1955-1975), San Francisco
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The Siren's Call: Love energy
Los Angeles TimesThis month's column is about love. Not the Valentine's Day variety. The Siren's Call is interested in love as an elemental force — as something experienced by mystics and glimpsed by poets. Dante caught a glimpse — this column recently...Tags: Lotteries, Northwestern University, Entertainment, Music, Family
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George Hitchcock dies at 96; poet and publisher of the literary magazine 'kayak'
George Hitchcock, a poet, painter and UC Santa Cruz emeritus professor whose iconoclastic vision as publisher of the literary magazine "kayak" helped free American poetry from mid-20th century orthodoxies and provided an early forum for such distinguished...Tags: Richard Wilbur, University of California, Canoeing and Kayaking, Kenneth Rexroth, Journalism
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A Father's Day for my mentors
Sun Columnist"The old male initiators -- King Arthur was one -- are interested in the souls of the young man. That's what the young men are missing, that there aren't any older men who are interested in their souls." -- Robert Bly, poet They don't make Father's Day...Tags: Family, Father's Day
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