Like Joe Duemer, I have become tired of the current spate of personal
attacks on this list - particularly the vituperative language used - and so
am unsubscribing for a while. Perhaps other list members can advise me
backchannel when things have settled down.
Viv Kitson
From: J.V. Kinsella <[log in to unmask]>
> hi, people
>
> i should have regular email access as of this week. i return to cambridge
> early sept. i haven't been able to follow the list closely over the last
> couple of weeks but have received a strong complaint b-c from a new list
> member re a misunderstanding over "non-english" surnames and a
> misunderstanding over identity. i can
> vouch for ip and feel she has good reason to be concerned that she is
> being dismissed unfairly (as a result of earlier list happenings - before
> she became a list member).
>
> could people please remember that this is an international list and that
> it encourages different cultural viewpoints and, for that matter,
> languages. the translation project was a step in this direction. by way of
> a new project, i welcome people to post original poems in languages other
> than english (with a translation if one is available).
>
> it's also worth new members noting that irony often goes into overdrive on
> poetryetc and discussion deviates from original thread lines - this is
> interesting and, in a sense, is what the list is all about. it generates
> its own languages and identities.
>
> best,
> jk
>
>
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> John Kinsella
> Churchill College
> Cambridge CB3 ODS
> England.
> http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Square/8574/
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