Since the appearance of her first collection, Cruelty (1973), Ai has become a major force in contemporary poetry, pushing her chosen poetic form, the dramatic monologue, to courageous new limits. Her ...
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Critical Essay by John N. Morris
To be very solemn, the difficulty [of Ai's Cruelty] has to do with the problem addressed but not resolved by Aristotle, the question of the moral standing of t...
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Critical Essay by Carolyn Forche
From Russia, Mexico, Buchenwald and Minnesota, the voices [in Killing Floor] speak of patricide, necrophilia, self-immolation, cannibalism and torture, converging in ...
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Critical Essay by Randall Albers
There is a poetry of sweetness and light, a poetry that cloaks the viscera and makes of them a human form divine. And then there is the poetry of Ai.
In Killing Fl...
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Critical Essay by Hayden Carruth
[Certainly] the poet who calls herself Ai ("love" in Japanese, which is part of her ancestry) is among the best [of the Afro-American poets]; this much ...
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Critical Essay by G. E. Murray
[Ai's second book, Killing Floor,] again displays a range of tough-minded images, but these latest poems are further enriched by a framework of quasi-historical ...
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Critical Essay by Stephen Yenser
[The poems in Killing Floor] are obsessed with the human capacity for violence. Deaths by axing, shooting, bludgeoning, strangulation, and hara-kiri occur in piece af...
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Carmelo Anthony had 24 points and Allen Iverson added 23 and the Denver Nuggets won their fifth straight game with a 115-83 win over the New York Knicks on Saturday night.Marcus Camby grabbed 20 re...
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Kassel, Germany (dpa) - Ai Weiwei, the Chinese artist who is
inviting 1,001 Chinese migrant workers to Germany as part of a work
of art, was supervising Friday the creation ...
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London/New York (dpa) - Partisan politics and "selectivity" in
international bodies have prevented the prosecution of "war crimes
and other grave violations" one year after ...
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Allen Iverson has gone from almost invincible to nearly invisible.In six trips to the playoffs with the Philadelphia 76ers, Iverson's 30.6 scoring average was second all-time to Michael Jordan's 33...
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Traditionally, pharmaceutical manufacturing has been accomplished using batch processing with quality control testing conducted on samples of the finished product. This conventional approach has be...
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Amman (dpa) - Jordanian Foreign Minister Abdul Ilah Khatib and his
Egyptian counterpart, Ahmed Aboul Gheit, are to visit Israel on
Wednesday to discuss re-launching the Arab...
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Today is the Prospect Park Alliance Hat Party. As far as we can figure (and we’re sort of scared to dig too much), this shebang takes place in the wee hours of the morning at the grand River ...
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Ramallah (dpa) - Amid conflicting reports about his case, Mu'aied
Bani Ouda, a Hamas commander in the West Bank, on Saturday admitted
on Palestinian state television to help...
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San Francisco (dpa) - The following are the main venue details and
line-ups for the Live Earth concerts on Saturday:
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US: New Jersey, Giants Stadiu...
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Critical Essay by John N. Morris
AI, Anthony help Nuggets pummel Knicks
