Well, if you read the papers presented at the World
Congress of Poets in Sydney, the "papers" are only a
very long poem (apparently repeated) by "Dr. KWUNG-SOO
Cho from Korea (IWA), Pastor Poet (WCP) Millennium
poet 2001 (In Australia and India) and Man of the Year
2001 (ABI). Poet and artist, was born in Seoul in
1958. He is a member of Korean society of translators
and is the director of PEN foundation of Korea."
which sounds ok but then there is the poem, of which I
include only a part, though ending it anywhere grants
more closure than the poet would dream of.

  It took many times.

  I lost many things and I must be gave up my plan
even promotion and university and marriage and friend.

  I think that it's too much.

  I have heard of such an oasis in the center of
desert and I crossed the desert.

  I have heard of such a land after pass through the
ocean and I crossed the ocean even though it takes me
ten years to compose the poem.

  I turn an impossibility into a possibility by faith
and effort.

   Effort, that is, sweat never get tired me.

   There is an unconditional blindness between times.

    But I can do that I am in a sweat on my road by
myself.

Personally I think maybe this is another one of those
blasted hoaxes (er. . heteronyms), perhaps that's why
they want _you_ to pay. As Stewart says in Crimes of
Writing, such "fictions require the collaboration of
the audience."

Rebecca

--- Alison Croggon <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> But there's no way I'm paying $A120 to be
> _considered_ for a book.
> How many invitations has this guy sent out? The
> more I think about
> it, the curioser it gets.
>
> >As an addendum to my nastiness, I did a google
> search. The Sydney
> >committee included all sorts of respectable people,
> including Ron
> >Pretty, and so far as I can see, Dorin Popa is
> genuine and the next
> >World Congress is to be held in Romania. So I
> might have thoroughly
> >embarrassed myself!
> >
> >Ah well, not for the first time -
> >
> >Best
> >
> >A
> >
> >--
> >
> >
> >Alison Croggon
> >
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Rebecca Seiferle's third recent poetry collection, Bitters, (Copper Canyon www.coppercanyonpress.org 2001)is nominated for the Pulitzer and National Book Award and two Pushcart Prizes.
Her translations of Alfonso D'Aquino and Ernesto Lumbreras are forthcoming in Reversible Monuments: An Anthology of Mexican Poetry (Copper Canyon, 2002). She is founding editor and publisher of The Drunken Boat, www.thedrunkenboat.com

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