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Trying to Raise the Dead
Lovely poem. For me it captures something of the paradox of the poet writing to a blank page. There she is, at a party, people around her, but she writes her deepest feelings into the surrounding natural world. Who's listening? Who reads poetry these days? The poet continues to write hoping that "Someone's bound/to show up soon." Dorianne Laux is one of our best.— September 29, 2010 2:26 p.m.
Norman Mailer Could Make a Phone Book Fascinating
John: Mailer's presence in the world is actively missed by those of us who love good writing. More and more we are losing the heavy hitters. You remind me that I also never read"The Castle and the Forest" and have been meaning to for quite a while. I always think it's particularly instructive to read the last books of major writers. They're written at a time of life when most writers have jettisoned whatever pretensions they've carried with them from book to book and are committed to writing only what really matters. I'm going to order it right now...and be prepared to learn a lot about bee-keeping. Federico Moramarco— September 15, 2010 1:02 p.m.
King Lear
Jeff: I agree with you completely about the story of King Lear never being told better than this production, which emphasizes being quite clear about Shakespeare's text. I loved Robert Foxworth's pared down Lear--it humanizes him and shows us where his daughter's impetuousness and self-serving rhetoric comes from. Goneril and Regan are very much the daughters of a man who needs, as they do, his every whim satisfied. Also, I thought Bruce Turk's fool was brilliant. I have never seen the fool played with such a sense of melancholy and loss. And Edgar's off-the-charts wildness as Tom O'Bedlam was deeply affecting as well. I've seen quite a few Lears over the years, in London, NY and here, but this production seems to me to get at the soul of the play. It may sacrifice some of the cosmic grandeur (though the storm scene is spectacular to watch) but it underscores what a deeply human tragedy this play is, and why it is perhaps Shakespeare's greatest. I loved it. Federico Moramarco— August 4, 2010 10:01 p.m.
Rehab -- 09/26/08 at Brick by Brick
THIS IS AN AMAZING SHOW. I SAW THE PREVIEW LAST NIGHT AND WAS BLOWN AWAY. SOMETHING TOTALLY NEW AND DIFFERENT. DON'T MISS IT.— January 9, 2009 12:20 p.m.
The Italian Cooking of Joy
Wow, this looks like a find Naomi...I'll be heading to La Mesa shortly.... Fred M— March 18, 2008 12:07 p.m.