"There is one writer who has let language emerge as action recently: Tennessee Williams, a playwright and a poet, has ranged from the blue piano and the Mexican woman intoning, "Flores. Flores. Flores para los muertos. Flores. Flores...." to the streaming soliloquies of danger and the abrupt shifts of seduction and violence, in all of which the inner action and the outer are equilibrated by means of language. Sometimes false, often hypnotic and inescapable, these speeches extend the action of his plays, giving them a density, setting up a world, which is too many times absent from the theater."
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LGBT peopleNovelists from the United StatesPresidential Medal of Freedom recipientsPlaywrights from the United StatesPeople from Mississippi
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Muriel Rukeyser, in The Life of Poetry (1949)
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