Thanks, Dave--I'm curious about _Prospect_ too. Since it's on your side of
the pond, though, maybe you could sniff around some--? A glance through its
back issues suggests that this Lind fellow is a regular contributor,
although not on poetry up to now ("and a good thing too," as the Fish would
have it). Wonder where he got the idea that Eliot, Pound, and Ashbery
were/are academics. (Did the first two earn PhDs anywhere, as he alleges?
News to me, if so.) So give us the scoop on the rag, do! Thanks--Candice
on 7/7/01 9:57 AM, david.bircumshaw at [log in to unmask] wrote:
> Just been having a look, Candice, and hilarity vied with disbelief at the
> wriggling distortions of that article.
>
> The ancient art of the dressed-up half-truth, I'd say.
>
> Like to know who, and what, 's actually behind 'Prospect', and what its
> undeclared agenda is.
>
> Best
>
> Dave
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Candice Ward" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Friday, July 06, 2001 11:26 PM
> Subject: FW: Poetry in PROSPECT
>
>
>> Check out this hilarious (and error-riddled) piece by an American
> journalist
>> in a Brit journal that blurbs itself as "_the_ magazine for the
>> intellectually curious general reader...the intelligent monthly based in
>> Britain - but with an international mind and an international
>> readership"--but with no fact-checker on staff apparently....
>>
>> Let's hear it for Dana Gioia, Slo-Po!
>>
>> Candice
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