Fans of Prison Break (superb guilty pleasure suspense for 44 episodes) will note that Season 3, of 13 episodes, (soon available on disc in the UK) was rudely (and thankfully) interrupted by the writer's strike - leading directly, this autumn, to a full Season 4. The series has resurrected its most beloved charater, Dr. Sara Tancredi. Eyewear, which had refused to watch the brutal new season due to its abrupt, cynical termination of the Tancredi character, may be tempted back to the fold. The series writers claimed the third season was about "redemption" - but Season 4 could really, be - for them.
When you open your mouth to speak, are you smart? A funny question from a great song, but also, a good one, when it comes to poets, and poetry. We tend to have a very ambiguous view of intelligence in poetry, one that I'd say is dysfunctional. Basically, it goes like this: once you are safely dead, it no longer matters how smart you were. For instance, Auden was smarter than Yeats , but most would still say Yeats is the finer poet; Eliot is clearly highly intelligent, but how much of Larkin 's work required a high IQ? Meanwhile, poets while alive tend to be celebrated if they are deemed intelligent: Anne Carson, Geoffrey Hill , and Jorie Graham , are all, clearly, very intelligent people, aside from their work as poets. But who reads Marianne Moore now, or Robert Lowell , smart poets? Or, Pound ? How smart could Pound be with his madcap views? Less intelligent poets are often more popular. John Betjeman was not a very smart poet, per se. What do I mean by smart?
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I remind you that our Future Prime Minister has already won from 2001 to 2006 in Europe a record of "buffoonery". It seems that THESE are the people who get votes now.
Now the only hope is Obama.
But it's the "Iron" age according to the Hindus, the Dharma cow standing on one leg only.No escape. Better to brace against something even worse.
Congratulations for Orbis, I have received my contributor's copy of 143: great Carole's editorial.
Best, Davide