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October 27,1993 8 Campus Extras Whistle while you eat at Raleighwood • Wednesday, Oct27, 7:30pm - Poet and Professor of English at Duke University, Deborah Pope, will read from her first collection of poetry. Frantic Heart. Kresge Audi torium. • Thursday, Oct.28, 8:00pm - Leda Yager and Nancy Johnston in a Faculty and Guest Recital. Carswell. • Friday, Oct.29,3:00pm - Lynn Barbee, Graduate Voice Lecture-Recital, Carswell. TTirough some stroke of luck, I won a drawing for dinner an(famovie at Raleighwood (thanks HeralH)),^ Sunday afternoon, myroommate and. I decided to go check out a matinee to see what this place was all about. Being the self-professed Disney junkies that we are, my roommate Jenny and I had no problem choosing to sceSnow White over FreeWilly, even though the woman working the box office tried to talk us out of our decision. I’ve never had abox office worker try to disuade me from seeing a certain movie, but I have had the distina impression that on many an occasion a worker was chuckling quietly behind my back at the stupid ity of my choice. Anyway, her can dor was refreshing, and she eventu ally conceded and gave us our tick ets. The interior of Raleighwood is clean and comfortable, and the the atre rooms themselves are setup with small round tables and bar-style tables. Jenny and I took a table in the back comer because most of the rest of the theatre was overrun with four- year olds. Our waiter, Mike, ap- by Allison Spearman Meredith will welcome Deborah Pope, a poet aq0 irofessor of English at Duke University, on Wednesday, October 27, at 7:30 p.m. in Kresge Auditorium, Pope will read from her first collection.of poetry, Fanatic Heart (Louisiana State U.P., 1992). Pope’s poetry has q^ared in Ohio Review, Southern Poetry Re view, PoetryNorthwest, Cutbankand other magazines. Fanatic Heart was nominated for the National Book Award. In addition, to being a poet and a professor. Pope is a critic who has published two books in the field of women’s studies. She is the authx'of A Separate Vision: Isolation in Con temporary Women's Poetry and co- ecBlor of Ties That Bind: Essays on Movie Review by Elizabeth ftihani proached us shortly with a weary yet grateful look that seemed to thank us for being over3 feet tall. He took our drink orders and gave us a few min utes to look over the menus. I have never seen a movie in a theatre that serves food, so I was expecting a skimpy menu. Not so. There are tons of appetizers, from popcorn (go figure) to loaded nachos and chicken wings. The n^nu also offers burgers, grilled chicken sanwiches, pizza and salads and ev ery dessert on the menu includes chocolate in its title. Tlie prices are very reasonable, too, with appetizers from $2.75 to $12.95 andsandwidies for $5.95. There is a kids’ menu as well. Mike brought us our nachos be fore the movie started, and they were gone before the movie started, too. I highly recommend them (burp). Our sandwiches arrived about the time Mothering and Patriarchy. Fanatic Heart, featuring poems with titles like “Passages,” "Happy,” ‘Two a.m.,” “Preparation,” “What We Meant to Say” and “Still Light with Flowers,” receives high praise from critics. Shelby Stevenson, from the Southern Pines Pilot, believes that Pope’s poems work because fliey are “poems of memory and imagina tion, personal experiences rendered into art through the senses.” Ruth Moose, from the Winston- Salem Journal, says, ‘Pope paints clear, stark landscapes of our lives and those we let into our lives.” And while Pope describes her own expe riences, Moose praises Pq>e’s work because “each poem reminds us or our own emotions.” And what themes will we find in Fmatk Heart that m^e the poems Snow White was cleaning tlte seven dwarfs’ house, so Jenny and I had some fun trying to whisUe while we ate. Needless to say, it was "a good thing that no one was sitting in firont of us. My chicken sandwich was great, and Jenny seemed to enjoy her burger. All in ail, the food and service were betor than I expected. Mike was very attentive, clearing oiu’table and filling our drinks periodically. Our bill came to $26.11 and included our sodas, ^jpetizer, and two sand- widies. Adding a tip and the price of the movie tickets ($2.50 each), the total cost was around $35. If you consider that a movie ticket is about $5.50 these days and dinner most anywhere is about $7-$10 per per son, Raleighwood is a good deal. Raleighwood as a rule shows movies that have been out for a while, but they’re good movies like Rising Sun sndThe Firm. I never see mov ies until they’re out on video any way, so its nice to have a theatre like this to keep the movies' out for a while longer so I can make plans to ?ee them. This is a great date place so J’amiliar? In an interview with Alyc^ Crowder of Duke’s The Chronicle, Pope herself says that most of her poems are about “personal relationships and the complexities of intimacy.” Crowder, though, feels that Pope best addresses what really makes readers indentify with her poems in her observation that “Po etry is a quiet surface with a fanati cism under the lines.” Perhaps that is why Pope tifled her collection Fa natic Heart. Come hear Pope read from Fa natic Heart on October 27. Come even if you typically avoid poetry— Pope would challenge you to, for she feels that “readers are afraid of po etry because they think it’s obscure. They should be afrsud because po etry is so clear and revealing.” (or so I’ve heard), and if you’re over 21, you can order beer, wine or cham pagne with your meal. Raleighwoodis a fun place based on a CTeative concept, and I would recommend that you go see for your self sometime. Just stay away from Sunday matinees of children’s mov ies unless you’d rather hear the songs sung by fifteen little kids than by the seven litUe dwarfs. MEA Halloween Mixer Return of the Boo Jam October 28,1993 9 p.m. - 12 a.m. Weatherspoon pym Featuring DJ Anderson Bass Refresliments served! Mix with fraternities and dorms from State and UNC $1.00 admission V J) Local poet and professor to present poetry
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