on 8/31/02 6:05 PM, KENT JOHNSON at [log in to unmask]
wrote:
> Howard McCord, one of the very finest poets in America, and a real
> scholar of things ancient, wrote yesterday to say he is
McCord has a neat poem called 'In Iceland' in Edward Fielld's 1979 Bantam
anthology 'A Geography of Poets'.
> "moving through the five volumes of the complete Icelandic
> Sagas in English--a beautiful morocco-bound boxed set published in
> Rekjavik, and financed --by-- guess who? ICELANDAIR.
> Can you imagine United Airlines footing the bill for a 5 vol. American
> poetry set? Or Exxon? It has a fwd by the President of Iceland,
> too."
ICELANDAIR realize that promoting the sagas is in their own best interest
since classic Icelandic literature has long been the major initiative for
travelling to the country.
> Ah, to be like Ibsen a citizen of a civilized land. I mean can you
> imagine The Treasury of American Poetry with forward by George
> Bush?
There's 'civilized' and 'civilized', Kent. There are a lot of things we need
to amend up here. I kinda like the idea of an anthology with a forword by G.
Bush. I might even be called 'Bush-poetry', no? At least it could be an
interesting parlour game to guess which poems he might like.
Best
Árni
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Árni Ibsen
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220 Hafnarfjördur,
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