Alison
Lucky me, I too have Trevor Joyce's collected poems, With The First Dream
of Fire They Hunt The Cold (New Writers' Press, Ireland) in my to read
pile. Having read Syzygy, & some others, I am really looking forward to
taking some time with it. And you're absolutely right when you say: 'Apart
from anything else, it's a beautifully designed object, fantastic to hold
and read." A huge & rich collection.
On the other hand, I still hope to finally read the last two Sandman books,
& have a lot of toehr poetry to read. Including Harriet Zinnes' My, Haven't
the Flowers Been?. our next year's Writer in Residence, Shani Mootoo's The
Predicament of Or, & the last two Anne carson volumes + her recent volume
of criticism. And a whole lot of SF & F.
(When we were in that little discussion of SF, I mean to mention the
amazing first SF novel by John Clute (who has co-edited both The
Encyclopedia of Fantasy and The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction),
Appleseed, in which he truly pushes language as the material of
extrapolation, finding a way to have a far future character & AI enter the
whole 20th century as linguistic & artistic self-contextualization. So full
of charged allusions I only caught about a quarter on the ifrts read. A
delight.)
I hope to have a chance to go through Robert Adamson's big new Collected
when I get it, what a pleasure to revisit that oeuvre.
Doug
Douglas Barbour
Department of English
University of Alberta
Edmonton Alberta Canada T6G 2E5
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Beauty's whatever
makes the adrenalin run.
John Newlove
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