And "hear, hear" to you too, David, on the Gioia front. He's
widely despised here--and for that article in particular, I
gather. Probably not much use trying to get him to talk to even
the Stateside equivalents of Alison (speaking hypothetically of
an impossibility, of course), though, because he's one of those
guys to whom you can't tell anything.
Candice
P.S. And thanks for your "we-kos, nekos, where dya get those
ceapos" bit--brill, as they say in your land. Or is it "fookin'
brilliant"? (No, that'd be Corkside, I think, the cute hoor
district.)
>'Hear, hear', as they say across the tables: here.
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>Dana Gioia's essay mentioned by Chris Hayden contains the unintentionally
>amusing statement that it has never been easier to earn a living as a poet,
>which may be true of the context of suburbanite tenured pseudo-poets he is
>discussing and of the circus but newly generated over here but which one has
>to regard with astonishment in the wider world. I think he ought to have a
>conversation with someone like Alison one day, a very serious conversation.
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