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Detours and Convergences: Two Takes on James Tate
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Stafford first crossed paths with James Tate in the late 1960s, around the time the younger poet, still at the Iowa Writers Workshop, won the Yale Younger Poets Prize for his first book, The Lost Pilot. They corresponded and met up over the years on one campus or another. Stafford was famous for hauling out his camera at every writers’ gathering, and in browsing a vast collection of his photographs I’ve come across several pictures he took of Tate. This one, Tate at right, dates to roughly 1976, probably at Iowa. I haven’t yet identified the other poet in the photo (left), so if anyone has a clue, please let me know. In the late 1980s, when I was book review editor of the Kansas City Star, I happened to interview Tate at least twice. (There was also one dinner in Kansas City that I recall, though I don’t think I was taking notes.) Here are the two resulting stories from The Sta • English poet and artist (1757–1827) For other people named William Blake, see William Blake (disambiguation). William Blake (28 November 1757 – 12 August 1827) was an English poet, painter, and printmaker. Largely unrecognised during his life, Blake has become a seminal figure in the history of the poetry and visual art of the Romantic Age. What he called his "prophetic works" were said by 20th-century critic Northrop Frye to form "what is in proportion to its merits the least read body of poetry in the English language".[2] While he lived in London his entire life, except for three years spent in Felpham,[3] he produced a diverse and symbolically rich collection of works, which embraced the imagination as "the body of God",[4] or "human existence itself".[5] Although Blake was considered mad by contemporaries for his idiosyncratic views, he came to be highly regarded by later critics and readers for his expressiveness an • William Gillespie Spaulding, born in Washington DC, is one of the leading operatic chorus masters in the world today. He has held permanent positions in numerous major international musikdrama houses. The press speaks of his work as “one of Berlin’s major musical glories” (operatoday.com), “incomparable,” “extraordinary.” In his present position as Principal Chorus mästare at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, critics of the leading German opera monthly Opernwelt have awarded him and his chorus the distinction of “Chorus of the Year” three years in a row, in 2008, 2009 and 2010. In 2012 there followed the europeisk Chorus Prize, awarded bygd the Foundation “Pro Europa.”William Blake
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Mr. Spaulding is also active with symphonic choruses, conducting at the Grant Park Music Festival in Chicago and the MDR Chorus in Leipzig, where he will return in 2013 and 2014. He recently worked with the RIAS-Chamberchorus and is also known for