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April 23, 2020: from Children Walk on Chairs to Cross a Flooded Schoolyard, Patrick Rosal

from Children Walk on Chairs to Cross a Flooded Schoolyard Patrick Rosal Taytay, Rizal Province, Philippines (based on the photo by Noel Celis)

Hardly anything holds the children up, each poised mid-air, barely the ball of one small foot kissing the chair’s wood, so they don’t just step across, but pause above the water. I look at that cotton mangle of a sky, post-typhoon, and presume it’s holding something back. In this country, it’s the season of greedy gods and the several hundred cathedrals worth of water they spill onto little tropic villages like this one, where a girl is likely to know the name of the man who built every chair in her school by hand [...] They hover like bells that can choose to withhold their one clear, true bronze note, until all this nonsense of wind and drizzle dies down. [...] I’ve said time and time again I don’t believe in mystery, and then I’m reminded what it’s like to be in America, to kneel beside a six-year-old, to slide my left hand beneath his back and my right under his knees, and then carry him up a long flight of stairs to his bed. I can feel the fine bones, the little ridges of the spine with my palm, the tiny smooth stone of the elbow. I remember I’ve lifted a sleeping body so slight I thought the whole catastrophic world could fall away. I forget how disaster works, how it can turn a child back into glistening butterfish or finches. And then they’ll just do what they do, which is teach the rest of us how to move with such natural gravity. Look at these two girls, center frame, who hold out their arms as if they’re finally remembering they were made for other altitudes. I love them for the peculiar joy of returning to earth. Not an ounce of impatience. This simple thrill of touching ground.

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More poems ... on artwork: Manet’s Olympia, Margaret Atwood ... and children: After the First Child, the Second, Mary Austin Speaker // Little snail, Anonymous // Mermaid Song, Kim Addonizio // Goodnight, Li-Young Lee // Bearhug, Michael Ondaatje

On this day in: 2019: If Life Is As Short As Our Ancestors Insist It Is, Why Isn’t Everything I Want Already At My Feet, Hanif Abdurraqib 2018: Bliss and Grief, Marie Ponsot 2017: Verge, Mark Doty 2016: Ever, Meghan O’Rourke 2015: The Two Times I Loved You the Most In a Car, Dorothea Grossman 2014: May Day, Phillis Levin 2013: The Triumph of the Infinite, Mark Strand 2012: Mermaid Song, Kim Addonizio 2011: the laughing heart, Charles Bukowski 2010: from Jenny, Genya Turovskaya 2009: A Step Away From Them, Frank O’Hara 2008: Entry, Lisa Sewell 2007: Meanwhile, Richard Siken 2006: Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note, Amiri Baraka 2005: Holy Sonnet XIV, John Donne

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Shirley Knight, who in a long film, television and stage career won two Oscar nominations while in her twenties, won a Tony Award in 1975 and later won three Emmy Awards, died Wednesday in San Marcos, Texas. She was 83 years old.She was at her daughter Kaitlin Hopkins' home when she died, said Hopkins. She did not specify a cause.Mrs. Knight's first Emmy came in 1988 for an appearance on "Thirtysomething". She won two more in 1995, one for a guest role in "NYPD Blue" and one for "Indictment: The McMartin Trial", an HBO docudrama in which she played the administrator of a preschool where abuses were allegedly committed.She had dozens of television credits, in 1960s shows like "The Outer Limits", "The Fugitive" and "The Virginian", and in later series like "Murder, She Wrote", "Matlock" and "Ally McBeal ".The numerous films in her curriculum vitae include "The Rain People" by Francis Ford Coppola (1969), in which she plays (alongside James Caan and Robert Duvall) a pregnant housewife from Long Island who takes off for an odyssey of discovery across the country.Mrs. Knight was recently on Broadway in 1997 opposite Rip Torn in "The Young Man From Atlanta" by Horton Foote, which Ben Brantley, in his criticism of the New York Times, described as "one of the happiest surprises of the season"."This is largely due to the galvanic presence of Mrs. Knight and Mr. Torn," wrote Mr. Brantley. "The two actors, who brilliantly burst out among the constellation of young stars imbued with method that emerged in the 1950s and 1960s, have only rarely been seen on New York stages in recent times. And it's as if they had somehow stored and nurtured both the strength and the finesse necessary for this production. "Shirley Enola Knight was born on July 5, 1936 in Goessel, Kan. Her father, Noel, was in the petroleum industry, and her mother, Virginia (Webster) Knight, was a housewife. She did her first cinematographic work long before becoming an actress - in addition to the 1955 film "Picnic", which was shot near her hometown. Mrs. Knight's first aspiration in the show was to be a singer, perhaps in the opera. As a junior at Wichita State University, she decided that certain acting skills could help advance this goal. So, responding to an ad in Theater Arts Magazine, she bought herself a six-week course at the Pasadena Playhouse in California.There, she discovered an ability to cry at the right time, which she used during a staging. A scout for the agency Kurt Frings, a major Hollywood concern at the time, was impressed and she was hired as a contract player at Warner Bros., leading to television roles in the late 1950s.After a few months, she was told to go see Delbert Mann, who was making a film, "The Dark at the Top of the Stairs," which called a teenage girl, a role that young Mrs. Knight could still play, although she was in his twenties."I got the job," she said. in a 2014 speech to the Screen Actors Guild Foundation, "and I guess I was fine, because they nominated me for an Oscar."The nomination was for the best supporting actress. The statuette went to another Shirley - Shirley Jones - for "Elmer Gantry".Two years later, Ms. Knight was again nominated in the same category for her performance in "Sweet Bird of Youth," based on a play by Tennessee Williams. (Patty Duke won for "The Miracle Worker".)Paul Newman, Geraldine Page and other stars of "Sweet Bird," said Knight, "seemed to know something I didn't know." They encouraged her to go to New York and study with Lee Strasberg; on their recommendation, she was accepted in her studio of actors.This training led to his Broadway debut in 1964 in a production of Chekhov's "Three Sisters" directed by Mr. Strasberg. She played Irina; Ms. Page and Kim Stanley portrayed the other two sisters.Mrs. Knight had two other Broadway credits in the 1960s. Then, in 1975, Tony's winning turn came in "Kennedy's Children," a play starring six characters in a bar that, speaking only in monologues, evoke the 1960s. The character of Mrs. Knight, a potential sexpot named Carla, considers herself the successor of Marilyn Monroe."Miss Knight", wrote Kevin Kelly in the Boston Globe, "like the most beautiful of Kennedy's children, the generation symbolically begotten by the late president, surprises in his analysis that, like 50 million other beautiful girls, are just images made by the media, prepackaged beauties, soulless and skidding after empty dreams. "Among the highlights of Ms. Knight's film career are "Dutchman" (1966), based on a play by Amiri Baraka on a confrontation with racial overtones between an unstable white woman and a black man. Among her favorite projects, she said, "The Lie", a 1973 TV movie, written by Ingmar Bergman, about a troubled marriage.Mrs. Knight married producer Eugene Persson in 1959; they divorced in 1969. Her second husband, the writer John R. Hopkins, died in 1998. In addition to her daughter Ms. Hopkins, from her first marriage, she is survived by another daughter, Sophie Jacks, from her second marriage, and a daughter-in-law, Justine Hopkins.Although best known for her serious roles, Ms. Knight has also appeared in comedies, including "Paul Blart: Mall Cop" (2009) and its aftermath (2015). And then there was "Grandma’s Boy" (2006), who in an interview in 2014 with Digital Journal, she described it as "ridiculously mean." It apparently has a sequel in young men."I forgot about her because she is about 10 years old," she said. "So what's going on is that I'm walking down the street in New York and the kids of, say, 12, 13, 15, 18, film me on their machines. They brandish their iPhones and say," I got you! I got you! '" https://oltnews.com/tony-and-emmy-winning-actress-shirley-knight-dies-at-83?_unique_id=5ea11e3e4a8fe

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