> is someone really going to climb up there and read this poem? I just wish
we'd
> leave Mount Everest alone...
>
Aye to that. Everest is -polluted- by climber's refuse.
david b
----- Original Message -----
From: roger day <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2001 9:05 PM
Subject: Re: PK Page's poem selected to be read at the UN and on Mt.Everest
> is someone really going to climb up there and read this poem? I just wish
we'd
> leave Mount Everest alone...
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "BarbourDoug" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: 31 January 2001 20:40
> Subject: Re: PK Page's poem selected to be read at the UN and on Mt.
Everest
>
>
> > ah comeon Mark, not that bad, & remember that it's meant for that huge
> > audience. But then, I know Page's work, & while she has written many
better
> > poems, this fits. She is considered one of Canada's finer poets, & has
been
> > since the 40s. Her best lyrics really do work. I would agree that this
poem
> > feels more like the kind of poem a political rally like the UN thing
would
> > want, but let's not get carried away in pissing on it...
> >
> > And to david, that was the title of Neruda's poem quoted as epigraph
(which
> > I suspect you knew...).
> >
> > Douglas Barbour
> > Department of English
> > University of Alberta
> > Edmonton Alberta Canada T6G 2E5
> > (h) [780] 436 3320 (b) [780] 492 0521
> > http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/dbhome.htm
> >
> > You may allow me moments
> > not monuments, I being
> > content. It is little,
> > but it is little enough.
> >
> > John Newlove
> >
>
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