Hi Anny
I wasn't questioning the authenticity of the links but rather the language
that was being deployed in this, erm, 'sales pitch'. What came across to me
was a piece of self-advertisement couched in utter crud, I don't know how
people can claim to be poets and simultaneously display such utter
insensitivity to language, the need to move towards 'individual and global
peace' oh yeah, next time I see some people beating up someone on the
streets I'll tell them that. There are no easy answers, and poetry that
feigns it has them is false poetry.
Best
Dave
David Bircumshaw
Leicester, England
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Anny Ballardini" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, October 07, 2002 2:04 PM
Subject: Re: Poet returning from South Korea requesting features for tour of
the USA...
hi david,
he is right, if you go to this link you will find me there, too; I cannot
grant for everything, but here he is correct:
http://this.is/poems/hope
anny
Is this some kind of joke or am I imagining that every cliché in the book is
being fired out here? Since when, btw, was the Dalai Lama an 'established
poet'? Sorry to sound crotchety but I am really getting fed up with the
peddling of banalities that is going on, perhaps I should go climb a Peak
and yell to my supplicants 'yes, yes' at every line they write.
David Bircumshaw
Leicester, England
Home Page
A Chide's Alphabet
Painting Without Numbers
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/david.bircumshaw/index.htm
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