Thanks so much, Anny.  I was feeling I'd gone too far in losing touch
with the list, and should just read for a while to catch up before
venturing a say on anything.  But then I saw your response and it
brightened me up a bit.

Sorry to hear Rebecca is not on the list anymore (didn't realize that
last night when I posted the note below--found out by seeing your post
to Doug today)--and would have liked to have heard from her how the
trip was, but I can email her to ask.  I am just glad to hear it
happened! & that it was a fine visit with poetry, translation, and all
kinds of art being shared--wonderful stuff going up on your blog
recently, yes!   The kind of travel/meeting/sharing you've done there
has to be a real-ideal, especially in the online world where f-2-f
sharing of ideas seldom happens, or so it is in my experience.

So grateful for your good words and attention to the Tex-show--which
btw, Y'all: a U.S. conservative academic e-rag, *"The" "American"
Thinker* website seems to think Tex and a couple of other blogs (Josh
Corey, Lisa Jarnot) are a great criminal threat to the nation and the
freedoms of neo-con world-think (this is the result & offshoot of the
Ammiel Alcalay criticism from them and *Campus Watch*--the Alyssa
Lappen article whining about leftie U.S. poets who teach (what a tired
bunch of crap, eh?).  Accusations of "Guerrilla" tactics, due to the
letter writing campaign Jarnot called for, and especially for me,
"vitriol" and something about distasteful language--& the editor kept
refering to me as "he."   Pronouns! Are! so! ASS!-UMptive, eh?

Anyways, Sheesh, what a compliment to be accused of carrying the huge
load of corrupting the Republican neo-con purities, eh?   :)

But in the end, I've foiled it again today by posting more "vitriol"
(!) than they are able to handle (apparently): Something about
referring to their views via the expletive, f***ing.  So when they
linked to it as an offense, I simply replaced the post they linked to
with an image of a woman breast feeding and text about its benefits,
along with another image of a 1774 handbill from Boston, something
about King George's tea party: Mother's milk, or Tea--offerings to the
NeoCon sensibility.

Basically, tho, I'm sure they are not worth so much trouble (a few nice
giggles, tho).  Very little thunder in their clouds, I think.  Mostly
because they don't know how to write an argument to save their behinds.

Well, I am blithering on this evenin'--must get back to all that
writing that's been keeping me from having fun on lists...

More soon--missing the congeniality here...



best,
chris murray

http://texfiles.blogspot.com


-----Original Message-----
From: Anny Ballardini <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask]
Sent:         Wed, 23 Mar 2005 13:45:21 +0100
Subject: Re: Rebecca Seiferle

   Thank you Chris, I know you have plenty, at least I have plenty in
simply
reading your very _and always_ interesting Blog!

Take care,

Anny Ballardini
http://annyballardini.blogspot.com
http://www.fieralingue.it/modules.php?name=poetshome
The aim of the poet is to awaken emotions in the soul, not to gather
admirers.
Stalker, Andrei Tarkovsky


----- Original Message -----
From: <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, March 23, 2005 7:41 AM
Subject: Re: Rebecca Seiferle


> Sorry to be dropping in and out here these last few months, everyone.
> Am utterly swamped and limiting online activities.
>
> Anny, this is such wonderful news--so happy to hear it.
>
> Congratulations, Rebecca!
>
> Best,
> Chris Murray
> http://texfiles.blogspot.com
> http://e-po.blogspot.com
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Anny Ballardini <[log in to unmask]>
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Sent:         Fri, 18 Mar 2005 16:26:58 +0100
> Subject: Rebecca Seiferle
>
>   Rebecca Seiferle is here in Bolzano, Italy, for a poetry reading
and a
> workshop: _Writing with senses_ at the Language Fair second edition:
> http://www.fieralingue.it/2005/
>
> She had her reading this morning accompanied by the Maestro from
> Malta, flute improvisation, in a fully booked room (80) people. If you
> wish, there is an interesting interview with Rebecca Seiferle here:
>
> http://www.fieralingue.it/corner.php?pa=printpage&pid=970
>
> or on the fieralingue site directly under the Fair,
> moreover you can read some of her poetry here:
>
http://www.fieralingue.it/modules.php?name=Content&pa=list_pages_categories&cid=28
>
> or translated into Italian on my blog:
> http://annyballardini.blogspot.com/
>
> She is the publisher and the editor of:
> http://www.thedrunkenboat.com/seiferle.htm
>
> I feel particularly privileged, my best regards,
>
> Anny Ballardini
>