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> Date: Sun, 7 May 2000 16:15:38 -0700 (PDT)
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> Subject: Re: Helen's introduction + adding my own
>
> Dear Helen,
>
> Where in Australia are you based now? I've lived in Melbourne all my
life,
> but was born in Papua New Guinea (in '74). Maybe we could meet up at a
> festival down the track. We'll be in the US for quite a while but hope to
> visit home too.
>
> One poem I love is David Shapiro's 'For the Princess Hello', which I
found
> in the New York Poets anthology edited by Shapiro (circa 1970). The late
> John Forbes was my tutor for a couple of years and he encouraged me to
read
> Ashbery, O'Hara, Ceravolo, Shapiro, Schuyler and others. Where were the
> women in my bookshelf? There were the Australians Gig Ryan and Judith
> Wright, among others.
>
> I don't know whether my intro went to everyone, so here it is again. I've
> been publishing in magazines/newspapers since 1995 and have been
published
> in the UK, New Zealand and on the net (in Jacket & Thylazine). I've got a
> book coming out from Potes & Poets Press this year (called 'Winter
> District') and Ken Bolton's doing a chapbook this year too.
>
> I seem to write poetry well only when I've come to some point of
> integration- I absorb new concepts, feelings, what I've read etc and then
a
> little later these come together obtusely in poems. This is
> a process that seems to change little- frustrating at times. Though it
can
> be sped up, with much caffeine and sleep deprivation!!
>
> Hope we can meet up some time Helen.
>
>
> Cassie Lewis
>
>
>
>
>
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