You're right, of course, Hal
& I apologize for not thinking that through....
Doug
On 22-Jun-05, at 9:16 AM, Halvard Johnson wrote:
> I suppose that depends on what "we" means here, Doug.
> Some "terror" in the McCarthy years here in the US, I'd guess,
> and certainly for black slaves forbidden to learn or be taught
> reading and writing. A fair amount too for the native populations
> watching the advance of the gun-toters.
>
> Hal
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> On Jun 22, 2005, at 10:50 AM, Douglas Barbour wrote:
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>> Which, for sure, we in North America never had to face -- that terror
>> (nor do we now, though some would have us think so, & thereby are
>> trying to create their own, more consumerist version).
>>
>> Those with the inner strength of an Akhmatova might find ways to do
>> what she did were they in her situation.
>>
>> Doug
>> On 22-Jun-05, at 8:22 AM, Peter Cudmore wrote:
>>
>>> Whispering: I rememember reading about Akhmatova that writing down
>>> poems
>>> during the Stalin Terror was a highly dangerous thing to do, so the
>>> practice
>>> of keeping them in the memory was in part conditioned by that.
>>>
>>> P
>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
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>>>> poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
>>>> Behalf Of Douglas Barbour
>>>> Sent: 22 June 2005 15:08
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>>>> Subject: Re: Reading vs reciting
>>>>
>>>> The other thing, which Yevtushenko reminds us of, is that
>>>> Russian is a language given to high rhyme while English is
>>>> not, & those of us who work the open form hard don't make
>>>> work that is easy to memorize.
>>>>
>>>
>>>
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>> -- bring lust into the library
>> or it is hell.
>> Lisa Robertson
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>
Douglas Barbour
11655 - 72 Avenue NW
Edmonton Ab T6G 0B9
(780) 436 3320
-- bring lust into the library
or it is hell.
Lisa Robertson
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