As the poet Mary Oliver once stated, «The only life you can save is your own!»
As the poet Mary Oliver asked, «Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?»
Not exact matches
Mary Karr, one of the writers Gioia mentions, shares this belief
as well, confessing, «
Poets were my first priests, and poetry itself my first altar.»
He cites Botticelli's contemporary, the
poet Buonincontri, who upended the classical pantheon in what could be called reverse Santeria, seeing Mercury
as «Logos» and Venus
as Mary.
The story of
Mary Shelley (née
Mary Wollestonecraft Godwin) is ripe for the biopic treatment, containing
as it does young love, romantic
poets, disgrace, tragedy and events leading up to the creation of the almighty horror parable, «Frankenstein»; subtitled «or, The Modern Prometheus».
Elle Fanning and Douglas Booth are well cast
as Frankenstein novelist
Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin and her lover and eventual husband, the
poet Percy Bysshe Shelley.
The remarkable site pits prominent
poets such
as Robert Pinsky, Charles Bernstein, and
Mary Jo Salter against one other and the clock in what Gordon calls an agon, from the ancient Greek word meaning «contest» or «challenge.»
In 1982 he moved to New York, where he showed at galleries such
as Mary Boone's, collaborated with Basquiat and Warhol, and made books with numerous writers and
poets, including Allen Ginsberg, Harry Mathews, and Robert Creeley.
The position of the outsider and shape shifter is central to this body of work and the influence of feminist icons such
as Mary Tyler Moore, Elle Woods in Legally Blonde or artist, punk
poet, experimental novelist and filmmaker Kathy Acker lingers.
Finally, in 2003, at his last exhibit at
Mary Boone, there emerged a bold, intense willingness to,
as the painter said to the
poet / writer John Yau in an interview published in Bomb magazine in Spring 2007, «try to be an empty vessel that the phenomena — all the forces around us — can go into and through.»
As Linda Nochlin has observed: «
Mary Frank reveals herself... to be the visual
poet of the inner life, evoking the pain and the mystery of our human embeddedness in the natural world.