thanks, Candide
(wink)
dave
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Sent: Sunday, February 18, 2001 12:10 AM
Subject: Re: space fat/some quick, loose thoughts
> 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.
>
> <snip>
>
> >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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