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From: "Richard Jeffrey Newman" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2005 3:04 AM
Subject: Re: Frank Tallis's 'Love Sick'
I don't know who Frank Tallis is, but this poem of his that Douglas Clark
posted strikes me as not much more than one cliché about love strung after
another, leading to a really, really flat ending. It strikes me that it
might work as a song lyric, but as a poem it reminds me more of Susan Polis
Schutz--just to combine two threads--than anything else.
Rich Newman
I am glad I gave up on writing poetry! But what was new to me in the book
which will interest Rich was the discussion of love in Arab poetry with
particular emphasis on 'istz (if I have spelt it right!). But I still think
it is a wonderful book cos it brings together absolutely everything known
about romantic love from an evolutionary perspective by someone who has read
all the literary sources.
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