Hi Trevor,
Thanks for the comments. I may be bowing out myself for a while, I am finishing the edits for The Black Heralds, and have a couple of days early next week of portfolios at the college, and then I'm off to the Asheville Literary Festival in North Carolina to be followed by a panel on Mexican poetry in San Jose, CA, so I'll have a good case of literary whiplash. But I'll hope to hear your chiming in now and then, as I will try to myself.
Happy and safe travels,
Rebecca
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From: Trevor Joyce <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: 04/25/03 05:17 PM
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Subject: Re: Vallejo's "Book of Nature"
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> Rebecca Seiferle:
> And in thinking about it, I think it's because some of these elements,
the
> personifications, the use of "sere," etc., are some of those that I
dislike
> in contemporary poetry from the UK, a sort of persistence of Victorian
> verse as if modernism hadn't occurred. I would argue for instance for a
> more truly archaic word than "sere" which still has vestiges of romantic
> usage clinging to it, but, again, I was not so much snagged on a
particular
> word. However, having said this, I think you may well be right, that the
> way to get around this particular issue in the translation is not by
> editting it out but by emphasizing it, by making the music even more
> discordant and thick, more dense. In other words by intensifying these
> characteristics in the text. So perhaps it's not that those dictions are
> there, but that they are not there enough. A little more volume, perhaps
Computer's acting up tonight, so I can't be as prolix as usual. Just to
say
I absolutely take your point here, Rebecca: I think you're dead right.
Mark,
if I remember rightly, said something much earlier in the conversation
which
I interpreted along these lines, whether accurately or no. Anyway, having
already been softened up, I just concede to this putting of the case.
Of course, agreeing's one thing; actually achieving it's another. We'll
see
. . .
Incidentally, I'll be on the road on and off from tomorrow: Dublin, Cork
again, then Boston (for six weeks or so), so may not be able to join in
much. But I hope to.
Best to all,
Trevor
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