I can't help myself, Max, sometimes I just fall into cliché, especially
in journal-mode. I do tend to use that word too much.
What it was was Lawrence was interesting, politically acute (according
to my biases), knowledgeable about US poetry (he has studied with
various, including Rachel Blau DuPlessis), & sadly cut off in that
college where he teaches students who already have their Answer and
whose minds he feels he can seldom open to the larger questions, try
though he might. I liked him. He had lived in Poland for a year back in
84 (& hadn't managed to get out of the US since then), so found the new
Poland amazing. Also, in Warsaw people walk the streets, & in the
Golden Polish Autumn sit outside all along them at the various
restaurants etc. & he, knowing the US cityscape all too well, at least
in his part, was delightedly amazed to find so many out and about (or
oot & aboot as we Canucks are supposed to pronounce it). We walked a
lot of downtown Warsaw, & had good conversation all the way.
Doug
On 20-Oct-05, at 10:46 PM, cooee wrote:
> now to read Doug on his Polish trip...Ah, interesting, including
> idiom:
>> really neat guy...
>> And got to remeet or meet
>> some really neat people.
>
> Doug, is this current in your vernacular world, or are you being
> amusingly
> nostalgic for a term I think went under in Australia a while back...?
>
>
Douglas Barbour
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All day long the heart’s
dark bud unfurls
coils for its quick season
-- How could I forget
you, Heart?
Diana Hartog
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