Ooppps! Forgot to send the web-address for the temples. I think it is worth
viewing them.
eppi
http://www.comune.capaccio.sa.it/galleria_fotografica/8.htm
> Paestum, situated on the wide gulf of my home town, Salerno,
> is the place where my mother and father used to take me for picnics on
> bank holidays, where brides and their espouses go to be taken photographs,
> where tourists wonder like wasps with prickling cameras around these
> temples, where there are
> the most striking temples of the ancient world.
> Jamie McKendrick and I when we lived there used to travel
> often to Paestum even just for the sake of passing by the site
> by car at noon while aiming to reach Paestum, wide beaches of fine sand.
> In Jamie's last collection of poems The Marble fly (also in Sky Nails)
there
> is a
> poem about Paestum.
> (The collection Marble Fly is in fact named after an ach-way in Pompei
> where there is a huge stone door
> on which we found hidden among thousand of other insects and micro-animals
> embossed in the white
> marble of this
> arch-way.
>
> If you click on this address, you will view one of the three temples.
> If you wish to see more just click on the arrow at the side of the photos
> and you will be
> given the entire list of available pictures of Paestum.
> It is a wonderful place. People normally go to Pompei, but rarely visit
also
> Paestum. It is only 20 miles from it down the south passed Salerno.
> Erminia
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: erminia <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Wednesday, October 20, 1999 12:16 AM
> Subject: Re: OLYMPIC INJURY & NOTHING BROKEN
>
>
> > Dear Hugh,
> >
> > I am terribly sorry to hear
> > of your injury at the Istituto Italiano di Cultura.
> > I really curse those steps that have made you fall
> > and hurt your elbow.
> >
> > The poem I wrote contains 2 (little, this time)
> > misprints (Sidney for Sydney and "or" instead of "of").
> > It is also accompanied by a web-site address where by clicking you could
> > view
> > the picture of "La tomba del tuffatore", in the Museum of Paestum.
> > The picture was found painted in the internal wall of a massive stone
> > tomb during the archeological excavations (Salerno - Italy)
> > of the ancient Paestum (still named like this) where there are three
> intact
> > temples identical to those in Athens (and Syracuse).
> > The tomb belonged to a diver. The scene reproduces this young
> > athlete in the act of symbolically splashing into the eternal waters
of
> > death, but also
> > represents his daily training from a trampoline for his Olympic
> > competitions).
> > I am adding it here the web-site again for you to view the tomb of the
> diver
> > in case you missed it.)
> >
> > http://www.comune.capaccio.sa.it/galleria_fotografica/35.htm
> >
> > Ciao and get better,
> >
> > Erminia
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Hugh Tolhurst <[log in to unmask]>
> > To: <[log in to unmask]>
> > Sent: Wednesday, September 27, 2000 6:17 AM
> > Subject: OLYMPIC INJURY & NOTHING BROKEN
> >
> >
> > > Dear Helen & Erminia
> > >
> > > Thanks for your poems, which seem
> > > very much in the spirit of Sydney, though
> > > we've been given wonderful contasting
> > > New Zealand accounts earlier from Scott H.
> > > Everybody write whatever they feel like.
> > >
> > > I've been slow getting back through injury:
> > > my new shoes let med down on the stairs
> > > at the Istituto Italiano di Cultura, Melbourne.
> > > Nothing broken, but my elbow is bruised
> > > beyond writing comfort, and my lower back
> > > is not too flash.
> > >
> > > For these reasons, plus a holiday coming up
> > > near Byron Bay, I'm evacuating the poetry
> > > etc stadium for some time.
> > >
> > > I'll read the late September and October archives
> > > for Olympic Poems posts, of which I hope to see
> > > many more. My thanks to all poets concerned.
> > >
> > > Weren't the Iranian weightlifters good!
> > >
> > > Bye for now
> > >
> > > Hugh Tolhurst
> > >
> > > PS HEAT 15 is out in orange, apparently the first
> > > series is dead, long live HEAT (& Ivor Indyk) volume
> > > Two. The title poem of my second collection may be
> > > found on page 271. Uni of Newcastle made Ivor an offer
> > > he couldn't refuse, apparently.
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
>
>
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