I don't know how editors do it without throwing it all up (double
meaning) & taking up knitting. Reading gets more difficult as I get
older. At the moment I'm reading the aforementioned *Lapis*, John Heath
Stubbs' *Artorius* and Douglas Oliver's Paris poems. I have put
C.D.Wright's selected poems to one side because I found them upsetting
without deriving much pleasure from them (there is a time for every good
poet; I will come back to her.) It may take me weeks to move on, though
I'm slow-
ly reading other, more learned stuff, plus the usual light reading
(there, I can still get through a bookload of detective or other schlock
in a day.)
P.S. I knew you were born under a star that danced, Anny, like a
non-Dantean Beatrice, but not that you were expecting one - when's the
joyous event? ;-)
mj
Anny Ballardini wrote:
> Hi Martin, Pierre and Mark,
>
> very interesting what you are saying. I am referring to: reading a lot
> of poetry. I do. I have different levels, there is the editor level,
> and my personal. Mine is homeopathic as you say, the other is
> objective. Many times I go back to my Poets' Corner and reread what I
> had previously put on, and there I am slow and enjoy very much what I
> had valued as being _OK_.
>
> Something similar happens to me when I write for a paper and for
> example watch a movie or read a book, and how I watch or read when I
> freely choose to do it. In the second case I feel on holiday and it is
> a party of emotions.
>
> Take care and a good Sunday to you,
>
> Anny Ballardini
> http://annyballardini.blogspot.com/
> http://www.fieralingue.it/modules.php?name=poetshome
> I Tell You: One must still have chaos in one to give birth to a
> dancing star!
> Friedrich Nietzsche
>
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