Yes, John's idea of anti-pastoral - still is in different ways, if
Wagner in the outback is anything to go by -
Best
A
>Alison
>
>I have this memory that John Kinsella was working on this a few years ago,
>so you might want to check with him if you can...
>
>I certaily see it in the late 19th early 20th century poetry.
>
>But wonder if city poems aren't something that has to be factored in in a
>new way...
>
>Doug
>
>Douglas Barbour
>Department of English
>University of Alberta
>Edmonton Alberta Canada T6G 2E5
>(h) [780] 436 3320 (b) [780] 492 0521
>http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/dbhome.htm
>
> now I long to give up cigarettes
> and change the sheets on my carboniferous bed;
> O baby, what Hell to be Greek in this country -
> without wings, but burning anyway
>
> Gwendolyn MacEwen
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