Yes, I have this volume which is a gem. If you see any of the old PMPs in
secondhand shops then snap'em up. Another goodie would be no 19 which is
Ashbery, Harwood and Raworth which I found recently for 1.5 Blair pounds.
With very few exceptions - the Denise Riley one - the new series just
doesn't seem as good.
-----Original Message-----
From: Dave Lovely <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>;
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Date: 04 July 2000 22:04
Subject: New Directions Paperbacks (Koch)
>No, Steve, but I remember the poem! It was in a Penguin Modern Poets
>volume, the first series thereof: (Kenward) Elmslie, (Kenneth) Koch,
>(James) Schuyler - I think PMP #24 - that made a tremendous impression
>on
>me as a callow youth. From thinking all poems had to go dee-da dee-da
>dee-da dee-da dee-da/ line-break/with maybe the occasional da-dee
>somewhere, my horizons were opened. Unfortunately somewhere in the
>intervening years I seem to have contrived to misplace it.
>
>Dave
>
>PS I see William Herbert remembers this volume too..
>
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