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""Battling to the End" is elegant, profound, wide-ranging and frequently punchy. The introduction and epilogue are persuasive, prophetic tours de force. "

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"Carver never seemed to know where he was or why he was there."

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By the time Cohen and band played to a huge crowd of 20,000 at London’s O2 Arena on July 17th, they were well-oiled, two months into the big comeback tour, and with recording and film crews there to capture the event, they went on to deliver a spellbinding, seductive, pristine, near-three-hour set that spanned the man’s 40-year musical career.

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Poetry is a perfect medium for adolescence: it lends itself to the fierce dramas and false clarities of those years.

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Without The Collected Poems, we could not have known for sure that the tremendous change animating her work emerged amid bedrock constancy. All along, her poems have been most faithful to the moment mimetic and linear logics give way to association; her poems have courted the moment when writing through process gains true access to imagination.

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I love the little twists and turns that Stempleman throws in, so that even though the feeling (of ambivalence and looking for solid "personal" ground to stand on) remains consistent, we are never quite sure what the next line will hold or where it will take us.

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Gabriel Gudding’s Rhode Island Notebook consists of transcriptions of poems written into a large notebook on the passenger seat of the poet’s Toyota Echo during twenty-two one-thousand + -mile trips from Normal, Illinois to Providence, Rhode Island between September 2002 and December 2004.

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At 63 Mr. Young is a figure of blunt efficiency himself, and a man comfortable with his own contradictions. Here in the first of two tour-ending New York shows, he presented himself not only as a stubbornly craggy survivor but also as an avid early adapter, a holdout hippie idealist, an evenhanded pragmatist and a sharp-eyed cynic.

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Doubt is a bundle of questions, chiseled to a point and encased in the trappings of a Catholic church era now nearly forgotten.

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Unfortunately, the film doesn't succeed half as well as the play. The spare plot works better on stage, and Meryl Streep's interpretation of the central character occasionally drifts into caricature. Still, Shanley's meditation on the seismic shift in Catholic culture that converged with the Second Vatican Council helps us understand why an era that began with so much promise ended in such darkness and confusion.

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Is he guilty or not? It's natural for viewers to side with the feisty, not unlikable Sister Aloysius. But things may not be what they so readily seem, and this is writer-director John Patrick Shanley's point.

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Poetry and biography work at cross-purposes. Even when their facts overlap, one is artifice of the imagination, the other a record of the mortal coil. Poems convince us of a living presence on the page; biography, as Emily Dickinson noted, "first convinces us of the fleeing of the Biographied."

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So imagine my delight when "Wendell Berry and the Cultivation of Life: A Reader's Guide" was offered to me for review; it is a well-crafted consolidation of key Berryian themes in one introductory volume, and written from an explicitly theological perspective.

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For fans of Dylan, especially those who marvel at his creative processes at work, 'Tell Tale Signs' is simply a must have. However, it is much more than that. For anyone looking to find out about this older, wiser Dylan it is a highly recommended starting off point in discovering what will be looked at in years to come as one of the greatest Indian summers of any artist.

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In "Chains," by Laurie Halse Anderson, and "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Vol. II: The Kingdom on the Waves," by M.T. Anderson, each author (not related) has chosen a young protagonist of African parents to tell a story about slavery and the American Revolution. The characters, however, are so different and their stories told in such different styles that each novel is quite distinctive.

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Guy Maddin is the best director working today that you've never heard of. Maybe it's because he's Canadian, or because his films are surreal, dreamlike contemplations that don't fall into any of the usual cinematic categories.

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