MJ--
Now I am tongue-tied. To quote me--or, rather, my version of Saadi--back to
the list as you have done is among the highest forms of praise I have ever
received. Many, many thanks for your kind words and your good wishes.
Richard
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Sent: Monday, May 02, 2005 3:17 PM
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Subject: Re: Announcement: Rich Newman's Upcoming Readings
I'd love to be there too - & I'm still further away than Doug (I think);
I've been looking at your website, some of your own poems are almost
plain , often close to the knuckle. They certainly hit hard. I was moved
by parts of the Saadi translation there - if I may quote an excerpt for
everyone else here who can't make it, lines that embody a tremendous
humility:
And You who transcend all we can imagine,
whose existence we can neither guess at
nor claim to know as fact, of whose glory
all the world's words-spoken or written-fall
immeasurably short, the end is here,
and we stand as we did when it all began,
tongue-tied lovers, awe-struck at Your beauty.
I'm grateful for those lovely lines. Best wishes for the promotion.
mj
Richard Jeffrey Newman wrote:
>Thanks so much, Doug! Each will actually be a first for me, since I've
never
>done been a "featured reader" before and have never had a book to promote,
>either. So good wishes mean a lot. Again, many thanks.
>
>Richard
>
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>From: Poetryetc provides a venue for a dialogue relating to poetry and
>poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Douglas Barbour
>Sent: Saturday, April 30, 2005 10:50 AM
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: Announcement: Rich Newman's Upcoming Readings
>
>Here in Edmonton, all I can do is wish I could be there (too).
>
>But I wish you well in this performance, Richard...
>
>Doug
>On 29-Apr-05, at 4:44 AM, Richard Jeffrey Newman wrote:
>
>
>
>>Saturday, May 14th, 6-8 PM: I will be reading from my own poetry and
>>translations of Saadi, Selections from Saadi's Gulistan, as the
>>featured
>>reader at The Dactyl Foundation (www.dactyl.org), 64 Grand Street,
>>Ground
>>Floor, Soho, NY 10013. An open mic will follow. For more information:
>>(212)
>>219-2344.
>>
>>Friday, May 27th, 8-10 PM: With Iraj Anvar, author of Divani-I Shams-I
>>Tabriz: Forty-Eight Ghazals (translations of Rumi): Shabe Sha'er:
>>Night of
>>the Poets, An Evening of Sufi Persian Poetry & Song, St. Marks Church,
>>33-50
>>82nd Street, Jackson Heights, NY 11372. We will be reading and
>>performing
>>the poetry of Rumi and Saadi in Persian and English. (I will be
>>reading from
>>my recently published book, Selections from Saadi's Gulistan.) For more
>>information call (718) 592-5958. Co-sponsored by Movement One
>>(www.movementone.org) and The International Society for Iranian Culture
>>(www.isicweb.org). This event is also funded in part by Poets &
>>Writers.
>>
>>
>>My website: www.richardjnewman.com
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
>
>Douglas Barbour
>Department of English
>University of Alberta
>Edmonton Alberta T6G 2E5 Canada
>(780) 436 3320
>http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/dbhome.htm
>
>I don't need to
>hold back here
>in the union
>
>of forms
> Charles Olson
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