The Michigan Daily - Wednesday, October 31, 1990 - Page 7

Mary Ruefle's

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Scare me with a conductor, man


by Andy Cahn

honesty shows

by Carolyn Pajor
Are peaches in season? Are
they selling plums in the street?
Violets from a cart? Only in the
kingdom of heaven will it no
longer be necessary to have
some souvenir.
- from "Heaven on Earth,"
in The Adamant
Mary Ruefle's The Adamant
co won the Iowa Poetry Prize in
1989, and with good reason. Poet
Ira Sadoff comments, "Balanced
between faith and doubt, Ruefle
withstands loss and decay with
wit, play, and the energy of her
unique imagination." Ruefle is
the author of two other volumes
of poetry, Memling's Veil and
Life Without Speaking, and she
currently teaches at the University
in the Creative Writing program.
Ruefle says, "My work ap-
peals to a small, select group of
confused people - people not
sure of anything they think, feel,
see or do." She must be aware of
her strengths: her work is praised
as being wise and honest, full of
images and truths. When writing
poetry, she says, "Be less vulner-
able to all of the influences you
expose yourself to, but at the
same time, if you are completely

open to these influences, you
should be more closed." If Ruefle
weren't a poet, she says she
would be a scientist. "The con-
cerns of art and science are be-
coming more and more the
same," she says. "I could still
love the same things but I would
just be seeing them from a differ-
ent angle."
Ruefle spent a year teaching in
China, and while the experience
did not influence her writing a
great deal, she says a few poems
were inspired by what she saw.
"China is the most heavily popu-
lated country in the world," she
says. Living and working in
China is overwhelming. No mat-
ter how well you prepare yourself
for it, things will completely turn
upside down."
Finally, Ruefle says that if
someone came up to her and
asked her how to write a poem,
she would "look at them, as
though they're crazy.""I'd ask,
'Why do you want to write poetry
in the first place?'," she says.
"The reason must come from
within you."
MARY RUEFLE will be reading
today at Rackham Amphitheatre
at 4 p.m.

L ooking back to my elementary
school days, Halloween was without
a doubt the day I most looked foward
to. Of course I was excited to go
trick-or-treating, but in addition to
that, it was the one day of the year
that is was actually fun to be in
school. Everyone would come in
costume, eat candy and tell scary sto-
ries. The highlight of the day was
when we would turn off the lights,
listen to Saint-Saens' D a n se
Macabre and watch the accompa-
nying filmstrip. As third graders, the
images on the screen of skeletons
dancing in a graveyard to the rhythm
of the eerily played xylophone was a
bit scary to us, but we all could not
wait until the next year when we
could see it all again.
Unfortunately, the usual plan of
the school day is no longer sus-
pended for us on Halloween, but that
does not mean that we can not go to
see a spooky performance of Danse
Macabre. Tonight at Hill Audito-

the-audience seeing the pages of the
score turn and a baton being waved
without seeing anyone in front of
the ensemble. Other highlights of
last year's. show included a cello-
playing corpse, a conductor in a
shower (a la Psycho) and two stu-
dents dressed as Hanz and Franz
prancing around the stage trying to
pump (clap) you up!
If you haven't already picked up
you complimentary tickets, you will
have to wait until next year; it has
been sold out for weeks. If you are
one of the fortunate ones and are
planning to go, don't forget to come
in your best costume and expect the
unexpected, for as in the past, this
years show is guaranteed to feature
quite a few surprises.

I he conductor is not present in this photo from a previous School of
Music Halloween concert. S/he does not exist. This is scary. This is the
School of Music's contribution to Halloween cheer.

rium, the School of Music's Sym-
phony and Philharmonia Orchestras
and the Percussion Ensemble will be
peforming many haunting favorites
in their annual Halloween show.
Over the years, this has been one

of the Music School's most popular
productions for the shows contain
much more than the actual playing
of the music. One of the most antic-
ipated moments have been the en-
trance of the invisible conductor, and

The School of Music's HAL-
LOWEEN CONCERT is at fill
Auditorium tonight. The show starts
at 9 p.m. No tickets are available
for the show.

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