Ah, joanna, what a wonderful thought! To read poems to the masses to calm
them down. Lovely ...
Andrew
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From: "Joanna Boulter" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, October 27, 2005 7:45 PM
Subject: Re: Tangled, Snap
> Thanks, Jill and Alison. Things can get a little hairy on that particular
> train -- should have known better and waited for the next one.
>
> I must admit, for a moment or two I wondered about trying to calm things
> down by reading aloud from the book of Jane Hirshfield's poems I'd bought
at
> the reading. Her work has a quality of calm attentiveness about it, of the
> sort I associate with Denise Levertov. It might *just* have worked! but
I'd
> have been far more likely to get my teeth smashed in, so regret to say I
> chickened out.
>
> best joanna
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