Both poets felt that poems could survive obscurity without help from the slush of footnotes we expect in the Norton Anthology; yet, without explication, a poem like Hill's is hardly a poem, just language at war with itself.
Similar in some ways to "Our Town" and "Spoon River Anthology," yet without all that pesky introspection, the show does provide an occasionally interesting score and some honest laughs, made all the better by the Astoria ensemble.
We know that showrunner Noah Hawley has gone ahead and planned the next season of his extraordinary anthology series "Fargo" without Kirsten Dunst, casting Ewan McGregor in a dual role playing polar opposite brothers.
No anthology would be complete without the tears of Boston or the laughter-turned-to-tears of the late Brooklyn Dodgers, immortalized in Roger Kahn's "Boys of Summer".
In "Literature from the 'Axis of Evil,' " an anthology compiled by Words Without Borders, Al-Samman explains that "Syria's literary tradition has been greatly intertwined with its political background".
For those seeking a show that examines the Sinatra canon with an encyclopedic eye and a light sense of humor, "Our Sinatra" packs as much information, music and fun into its 100 minutes as an anthology could hope to do without seeming rushed, though it could take a trim.
