Hi Candice (& everyone),
I was away downstate giving a reading for which I did indeed get paid $300.
It was a lovely experience in a 200 year old farmhouse in the Catskills. I
can highly recommend Bright Hill Press as a literary sponsor & will shortly
have a link on my web site so everyone can check it out. While I was away
the computer folk at my university repaired 1500 files that had been screwed
up by the Haptime virus. They also installed the latest version of Norton
anti-virus software, which checks email attachments in real-time. (I had the
earlier version of Norton, but got caught between updates.) I think the
Buffalo Springfield line was "Paranoia strikes deep / Into your soul it will
creep." (Correct me if I'm wrong.) Also, just wanted to say I thought
Josephine's posting of the Lao Tzu lines was one of those moments of clarity
we all strive for but seldom achieve. Right now I'm having a bit of bourbon
& trying to catch up on the almost 200 messages from Poetryetc that have
come in while I was away. I especially want to comment on the syllabics
thread, since I have been working on a sequence in syllabics for 15 years,
but that will have to wait until the morning. Finally--& I am really glad
the list is moving on, but--I want to say that care for other persons must
always trump abstractions, whether they are political, religious or
literary. I am honestly sorry that someone as smart as KJ finds it
impossible to deal with others in an intellectually honest way. Why this is
so I can only guess. I find it sad. But I will also say that if I find my
own words being reproduced without my permission or distorted by quotation
out of context or through "editorial" changes, I will pursue legal action.
Such behavior in the name of satire or art is bogus posturing, the sort of
dishonesty that as a teacher I would attempt to correct in my students, who
are after all still immature. Mr. Kent Johnson is simply a bore, one of
those people you might at first attempt to humor, but finally learn to
avoid. That I have to think about him in relation to what I assumed was a
collegial exchange is distressing. But I am not without resources & I am not
without will. I will not be abused. Sorry to end by bringing up this tired
business. In the morning I will try to turn the corner that the list has
obviously already turned.
jd
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Times are bad. Children no longer
Obey their parents, and everyone
Is writing a book.
[Cicero]
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