And to give you further pause, I was reading today in The Guardian in some
article on recommended poetry books that something like 96% of the poetry
books bought in the UK are by dead poets! so much for poor dead suckers in
comparison to poor living ones,
Rebecca
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>Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2005 18:44:21 -0800
>From: Stephen Vincent <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Re: The suckability of contemporary American poetry
>To: [log in to unmask]
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>Methinks all these poor suckers, perhaps thank goodness, are dead!
>
>Stephen V
>
>> What about the suckability of British poetry?
>>
>> "She sucked, and sucked, and sucked some more."
>> (Christina Rossetti)
>>
>> "And leave but ashes: so, sweet mage,
>> Leave them my ashes when thy use
>> Sucks out my soul, thy heritage!"
>> (Robert Browning)
>>
>> "You suck with a sleepy red lip
>> The wet red wounds in his heart"
>> (Swinburne)
>>
>> "The mangled fingers; dearest, trust them to me,
>> I'll suck the madness out of every pore,"
>> (Beddoes)
>>
>> &etc.
>>
>>
>>
>> "Desire the more he suckt, more sought the brest,
>> Like dropsy folke still drinke to be a thyrst."
>> (Sidney)
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> =====
>> David Latan?
>> Stand Magazine: http://www.people.vcu.edu/~dlatane/stand.html
>>
>>
>>
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