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Laney
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Staff Writer
For those fortunate enough
to have “the luck of the Irish,”
last Wednesday’s poetry read
ing by Annie Callan proved to
be a dawning of spring, over
flowing with pleasure for the
senses and brightening an oth
erwise ominous day beneath an
Oregon sky.
Callan admits to working
“just enough” to leave time to
do what she enjoys best, writ
ing. The Irish born poet bal
ances her schedule to include
duties as teacher, a freelance
journalist, a consulting editor,
a literary escort for Oregon
Book Tours and as a Guest Lec
turer in the Oregon Council for
the Humanities Chautauqua
Program.
The haunting lyrics of her
poems proved to be even more
powerful and passionate as her
voice resonated through the filled
room in Gregory Forum. Reared
in Dublin, Ireland, Callan poems
reflect her love of family, her Irish
ancestry and perhaps a longing to
return to her homeland. Many of
her poems include childhood
memories, as well as the beauty
of the country from which she
comes.
Her lyrical accent provided
music to the words she had writ
ten. Callan paused often to check
on- her audience, asking if they
were still with her. Heads nod
ding in approval included
Callan’s brother from Ireland.
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Callan reads her poetry to students in Pauling Center,
Reading from her chapbook
of poems, The Back Door, pub
lished by Trask House Press
(1995), she continually provided
listeners with the inspiration for
her poems. In Copper. Callan
recounts the time her mother
while swimming was stung by a
jellyfish, and subsequently lost
her wedding ring.
In Waitress at the Irish Pub.
she reveals the details of her short
lived career as a waitress:
Okay, so it’s my first
day:/I don’t know where to find/
the HP sauce or vinegars,/and I
slice the soda bread/way too thick.
So, I can’t flip the napkins into
scalloped/shells you might find
washed up/on an Irish beach. It
may take time to remember
whether Limerick/is ham or
cheese, and whether Yeats’/
Inisfiree has fish strips or chutney/
(24).
Callan’s poetry and essays,
published in the U.S.A., Canada,
and the British Isles, have earned
her a grant from the Ludwig
Vogelstein Foundation, the 1994
William Stafford Poetry Fellow
ship, and the Academy of Ameri
can Poets Award.
Visits, by celebrated poets
and writers like Callan, are spon
sored by the English Department
as an ongoing effort to provide
students with the opportunity of
enriching their education through
cultural awareness.
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12 Monkeys a dark and
moody box office hit
Tarah Nimz
Staff Writer
12 Monkeys is an interest
ing movie to say the least. Its
appeal is like Brave New World
meets Seven.
When it begins, it is the year
2035 and the humans live in an
underground world. The world
as we know it was supposedly
overrun by animals after a dis
ease wiped out most of the popu
lation in the year 1996. The sci
entists, who are the leaders in the
future, send prisoners as “volun
teers” to the surface to collect
information that will help them
trace the disease.
Convict James Cole (Bruce
Willis) is sent on a mission back
in time to try and save the Earth.
He is transported to an insane
asylum where they assume he’s
crazy. Nobody will believe his
story of why he’s there.
Cole meets Jeffery Gaines
(Brad Pitt) a lunatic inmate in
the asylum and the son of a fa
mous scientist.
Kathryn
(Madeline Stowe) a sympathetic
psychiatrist who is trying to help
Cole understand himself. Cole
is doubting his sanity and hooks
up with Kathryn to stop the army
of the 12 Monkeys, an under
ground terrorist group that is
somehow connected to the de
mise of the planet. As it turns
out Gaines is somehow caught
up with the twelve monkeys
which leads to a funny exchange
between Gaines and Cole.
The movie is somewhat con
fusing at times but ultimately is
worth it. It has a serious plot but
Brad Pitt’s character provides
much needed comic relief. It por
trays the world as a dark and dirty
place that leaves you wondering
if something like this could ever
happen in real life.
Willis plays his usual role as
the action hero with a twist. The
director, Terry Gilliam, did a
great job of leaving the ending
open for interpretation. Gilliam
has always liked to make dark and
moody movies, like his earlier
movie Brazil. The ending is con
sidered by some to be one of the
movie’s weak points.
Overall, this movie leaves
you pondering the concepts of
time travel and insanity, and it has
the “love it or hate it” quality that
makes a good movie. But it seems
that for the most part people love
since it has made $39.1 over the
last four weeks.
The acting was excellent and
Brad Pitt won himself a Golden
Globe award for his appearance
in the movie. He is expanding his
horizons and he did a good job
playing a difficult and not at all
glamorous role that you wouldn’t
normally picture him in. The film
is rated R for language.