Dear Douglas,
What's the distinction here?
Best,
Bill
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From: Douglas Clark <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Friday, July 07, 2000 10:34 AM
Subject: Re: In some agreement but not with Mairead
> And while I am waiting for the kettle to boil for my coffee I would
> add that I think WAllace Stevens and Elizabeth Bishop belong more to
> the intellectuals than to the poets, although they were poets on
> occasion. The same could be said of Sidney Graham.
`I am of the race that sang under torture' to translate Rimbaud.
This is where PLath comes from. As did Catullis and Sorley Maclean.
These are not people sitting down to write a poem as an intellectual
exercise.
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