William Butler Yeats: Last News

Dennis Smith was a New York City firefighter and author whose bestselling books included “Report from Ground Zero.”Smith joined the New York City Fire Department in 1963 after serving in the U.S. Air Force. He received his first book deal after writing a thoughtful letter to the New York Times Book Review in response to statements by author Joyce Carol Oates about poet William Butler Yeats.

Arcade Fire‘s Will Butler has shared a new track called ‘Bethlehem’ – listen below.The Canadian multi-instrumentalist is gearing up to release his second solo album ‘Generations’ on September 25 via Merge.Following up on previous cuts ‘Close My Eyes’, and ‘Surrender’, Butler has today (September 16) offered up a punk-inspired, full throttle third taste of his forthcoming record.“This song partly springs from The Second Coming by [Irish poet] William Butler Yeats:​ ‘What rough beast, its hour come round at last/Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?‘” Butler explained, referring to the 1920 poem.“Like a lot of folks, I woke up after the election in 2016 mad and sad and scared and exhausted.