http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2008/08/mothertongues-in-china-nixon-in-navajo/ A blog from the Poetry Foundation where contemporary poets debate classic and contemporary poetry from America and around the world. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 07:36:51 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2008/08/mothertongues-in-china-nixon-in-navajo/#comment-4769 Jim K. Mon, 11 Aug 2008 00:46:30 +0000 http://pf/harriet/?p=997#comment-4769 I remember Peter Sellars making a dismal dinner at the Andover commons into an epic thing. Our complaints were the trials of demi-gods. Kool-Aid was "vitreous secretions". A modern-dress Mikado and a one-man show by James Spader on a pedestal were other hints. The sense of Nixon needing to be someone in history was something hardly anyone else noticed. The heroic in the now; the Existential cheerleader sees that. How rare at that time, especially for Nixon's case. To see into the self-myth of the sinking idol. That's the look in his face as he walks down the steps. I remember Peter Sellars making a dismal dinner at the
Andover commons into an epic thing. Our complaints
were the trials of demi-gods. Kool-Aid was “vitreous secretions”.
A modern-dress Mikado and a one-man show by James
Spader on a pedestal were other hints. The sense of Nixon
needing to be someone in history was something hardly
anyone else noticed. The heroic in the now; the
Existential cheerleader sees that. How rare at that time,
especially for Nixon’s case. To see into the self-myth
of the sinking idol. That’s the look in his face as he
walks down the steps.

]]> http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2008/08/mothertongues-in-china-nixon-in-navajo/#comment-4768 Don Share Fri, 08 Aug 2008 19:31:23 +0000 http://pf/harriet/?p=997#comment-4768 Interestingly, Alice Goodman is Geoffrey Hill's wife. Interestingly, Alice Goodman is Geoffrey Hill’s wife.

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