So, yes, evidently the listserve program that runs the Poetics List
converts all ".com"s and ".net"s into "USA"s in its "by country"
tabulation: another example of "US" as default (if not the fault) that
characterizes les choses de Internet.
By the way, if anybody wants information on the UB Poetics List, just drop
me a line and I will send information about it.
A curious thing about that TLS review of A Poetics is that the reviewer
never mentions the book in the review itself: the only place it is cited is
in the headnote listing the books under review.
A note to Allen Fisher: I was recently in Cambrigde (pause) Cambridge,
Massaschusettes and several persons with whom I had occasion to transact
some brief business, each of whom is well versed in the manners and customs
of the town, informed me Mr. Seamus Heaney was the only living "American"
poet currently on view at the vast Poetry Wax Museum of which Jed Rasula
has written. Contrary to your information, some close observers have
evidently reported that there is very occasional movement detectable in the
abdominal area of the statuette -- but this has been reported only by those
dedicated viewers who spend considerable time posted in front of the
figurine. In such types of observations, viewer projection cannot be rule out.
Charles Bernstein
http://wings.buffalo.edu/epc
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