Hi Mairead,
I was also letting Alison do the talking - and waiting with bated
breath (seriously). The wait was worth it. Thanks.
Jill
On Monday, January 3, 2005, at 04:38 AM, Anny Ballardini wrote:
> Hi Mairead, I _was_ waiting for your answer, I just found it redundant
> to
> repeat Alison's words. Oh well, Gorky and Porky are not the same
> thing...!
> And happy you got some monies out of it. Interesting to know you lived
> in
> the South. It seems that northern people pile up so much cold that as
> soon
> as they can, round 20 or so, they head for the south; and later on
> back up
> to the north. At least that is more or less what I did.
>
> I also think the poem was longer, can we read it all?
>
> Take care, Anny
>
> Anny Ballardini
> http://annyballardini.blogspot.com
> http://www.fieralingue.it/modules.php?name=poetshome
> The aim of the poet is to awaken emotions in the soul, not to gather
> admirers.
> Stalker, Andrei Tarkovsky
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mairead Byrne" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Sunday, January 02, 2005 5:50 PM
> Subject: Re: The suckableness of contemporary American poetry
>
>
>> Thanks Alison. No-one else seems to care. But misquotation is one of
>> the poet's crosses. What Jon wrote was:
>>
>> Like Gorky I sometimes question my doubts
>> outside to the yard and question the sky,
>> longing to have the fight settled, thinking
>> I can't go on like this
>>
>> But my poem "Pink Adobe: 21st Century Dawn" actually reads:
>>
>> Like Porky I sometimes question my doubts
>> outside to the yard and question the sky,
>> longing to have the site nettled, thinking
>> I can't go on like this
>>
>> Porky was our pig when we lived in New Mexico and although we
>> ourselves
>> did not live in an adobe house (though I totally defend anyone else's
>> right to do so), Porky sometimes reminded me of an adobe house,
>> especially when I would see her rump
>> vibrating by the side of our (stucco) house very early in the desert
>> mornings when I would get up to write. "The reference to nettling the
>> site relates to my herb garden at the time, I was actually trying to
>> recreate 15th century English recipes from an old manuscript I'd found
>> (thought I could make a go of it as a business or failing that
>> herbalism
>> but it all came to nothing in the end). Porky liked nettles too.
>> "Pink
>> Adobe: 21st Century Dawn" is a special poem for me in this way. I was
>> thrilled when The Minto Review accepted it and when it won the Knight
>> Prize, well, I was overwhelmed. The money was welcome too.
>>
>> Hey thanks a bunch for the info on Minties! I wonder if Oprah's
>> boyfriend Stedman is related to the Minties Stedman???? The fact that
>> Gates was involved indicates this is a possibility because you know
>> Henry Louis Gates is a great-great grand-nephew of
>> the Sydney Gates. Also I'm pretty sure Oprah once said that Stedman's
>> pet name for her was "Sweetacres." Well what do you know! I feel
>> I've
>> been chewing Minties all my life but that cannot be. Do you think you
>> could invite me to give a reading in Australia so that I could try
>> them
>> out? I could read "Pink Adobe" among other things.
>>
>> Happy New Year -- what a brave little flag *that* is!
>>
>> Mairead
>>
>> www.maireadbyrne.blogspot.com
>>
>>
>>>>> [log in to unmask] 01/02/05 12:49 AM >>>
>> Hi Mairead
>>
>> Nothing worse than being misquoted. Could you requote yourself? I am
>> however uncertain. Would you have to write the poem in order to do
>> so?
>> I'd
>> love to read it, in whatever case.
>>
>> I'm glad to know that the Minto Review is the most prestigious journal
>> in
>> the US, even though I keep misreading it as the Minty Review. This
>> has
>> pleasant and very suckable associations for me.
>>
>> http://users.chariot.net.au/~dan/minties/about.html
>>
>> On the quivive as ever
>>
>> A(lison)
>>
>> On 2/1/05 12:28 PM, "Mairead Byrne" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>
>>> I agree with Anny on this. Though I must say I'm miffed as my poem
>>> "Pink Adobe: 21st Century Dawn" (which I might say won the magazine's
>>> 2004 Knight Award) published by the Minto Review, was *misquoted* by
>> Jon
>>> in his admonitory bouquet.
>>> Mairead
>>
>>
>>
>> Alison Croggon
>>
>> Blog: http://theatrenotes.blogspot.com
>> Editor, Masthead: http://masthead.net.au
>> Home page: http://alisoncroggon.com
>
>
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