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 Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea. Love is the word used to label the sexual excitement of the young, the habituation of the middle-aged, and the mutual dependence of the... 
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 John Ciardi Information
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John Anthony Ciardi (June 24, 1916 - March 30, 1986) was an American poet, translator, and etymologist. John Ciardi was primarily a poet, but he also translated Dante's Divine Comedy, wrote several volumes of children's poetry, pursued etymology,...
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 The Boston Globe Westcott board names John Ciardi operating chief
04/12/1996: 131 words, approx. 0 pages The board of directors of Westcott Construction Corp. has appointed John M. Ciardi Jr. president and chief operating officer of the North Attleborough-based general contracting and construction management firm. Westcott also announced the appointment of Anthony DiGiantommaso as an assistant vice president of the... summary from source:
The Boston Globe Chelsea's Ciardis Put New Shine On History
05/16/2002: 740 words, approx. 3 pages If history resides in everyday objects, there's a treasure-trove in an old warehouse at the end of Library Street in Chelsea. E. Ciardi Company, Inc., a metal refinishing business, has been in operation since 1925, polishing, repairing, rebuilding, and revamping an entire world... summary from source:
 The New York Observer Sensational Arts News! You Won't Find These Hot Squibs Anywhere
7/17/2005: 2,904 words, approx. 10 pages In a way, it goes back to the spirit of the early Edgy Enthusiast columns, which were numbered riffs on cultural obsessions. Playlists, even—dare I say it? —pre-blog blogging. Not really: but …. 1 Did you know that Jorn Barger, the guy generally known... summary from source:
The New York Observer Sensational Arts News! You Won't Find These Hot Squibs Anywhere
7/17/2005: 2,978 words, approx. 10 pagesThink of this week's column as a play list for the overeducated, the media-saturated, the culturally jaded: things you may have missed, things you ought not miss, things you still can see and hear. Things "arts journalists" have not covered. Cultural news for those people...
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 Critical Essay by Edward Cifelli
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Ciardi possesses an authentic poetic voice with a technical mastery of his craft to match his spiritual affinity for it. (p. 21) [Ciardi] focuses with remarkable clarity on the elements upon which one builds a theme into a poem. Ciardi is passionate about writing poetry; he recognizes full well the axiom that it is the poem which gives the theme its force.
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Critical Essay by John W. Hughes
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Like Sinyavsky, Ciardi has been deemed a subversive by certain mealy-mouthed inquisitors, but his true subversiveness eludes the wranglings of House committees. For Lives of X strips away the "old lies" to reveal the rag-and-bone shop that surrounded the youthful poet's growth to manhood: �... summary from source:
Critical Essay by Laurence Perrine
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I read [Ciardi's "Tenzone"] as a competition in which both [the Soul and Body, the poem's speakers,] attack the Soul: the Soul first attacks itself; then the Body joins in and finishes the job. But the poem is a debate, though the Soul does not realize it. The question at issue is "Which writes the poetry?" The Soul begins with a wryly ironical description of the poet as a performer on the lecture circuit, inspired, witty, well-paid, lucent—"a gem of s...
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