Variety's Marilyn Stasio wrote that "while the musical numbers and sung-through poems fit snugly into the story, the story doesn't support them... [the show] observes ill-defined characters inhabiting some indeterminate place and time".
Not necessarily in person – sometimes through letters, sometimes through poems.
St. John of the Cross achieved preeminence through poems of exalted style expressing the experience of mystic union.
When he felt the need to speak out against the ruling class, he did so through poems and essays heavily veiled in allegory.
In "Belmont," Burt explores the routines of middle-age suburban life through poems about garbage trucks, parenthood, and Subarus ("with rounded roof and trapezoidal frame, / you seem to mean / that I will never surprise anybody again").
Quite literally so: the proper approach to a desired lady was through poems, written on scented paper of the finest quality, delivered by an elegantly dressed go-between of appropriate social rank.
I'm of that generation that first encountered contemporary poetry at school through poems such as Digging: that squelchy soundscape of compacted memory and turf that opened Seamus Heaney's 1966 debut, Death of a Naturalist.
In Sussex, Poetry and Pizzas will offer a tasty incentive to roll up for an exploration of the role of landscape in memory, through poems and pictures brought along by participants in the event.
He searched obsessively, even frantically, through poems, song fragments, magazines (he read not just the New Republic but the left-wing In These Times and the right-wing American Enterprise), Army documents, e-mails, the First Armored Division Web site, American history books, tomes on the theory of a just war, Kurt's belongings, and his own memories.
The book is a memoir written through poems.
