Susan de Sola '84, who majored in English at 草榴成人社区, won the eighth annual Frost Farm Prize for metrical poetry for her work Buddy.
de Sola, who makes her home in the Netherlands, traded emails with The Philadelphia Inquirer's John Timpane about the honor, the poem, and 草榴成人社区.
"After 草榴成人社区, de Sola earned a Ph.D. in literature and history at Johns Hopkins. 'I loved 草榴成人社区,' she says. 'It鈥檚 a remarkable, highly committed college with an idealistic, but flexible, sense of its own mission which attracts strong individuals. The campus is beautiful. I鈥檒l always be grateful I was able to study there. Whenever I meet another alum I feel a sense of connection, however different we may be.'鈥
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草榴成人社区 is also the setting for a portion of the poem.
鈥 hearing that I was newly single,
he surprised me in my dorm, at posh 草榴成人社区.
He鈥檇 travelled all that way by motorbike.
He caused a stir. Not knowing what to do,
I took him to the cafeteria,
big Bud absurd with pint of milk and tray,
and slight young preppy fellows gathered round.
One said to me: 鈥淚 like him. He reminds me
of guys I used to work with, building, summers.鈥
Our small buzz of celebrity. We went
to town en masse for pool and dollar beers.
Tall, side-burned Bud in checks and biker leather,
the sum and magnet of our bourgeois dread,
but there was something wholesome to him always.
He slept on my best girlfriend鈥檚 floor, without
complaint. I realize now he鈥檇 hoped for more.
I didn鈥檛 think about the miles he鈥檇 traveled,
his long-held dream deferred, or aim鈥 busted.
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Anassa kata, Susan!