Ah, Doug, that you are not devitalized or devitalizing is a certainty!
from one also attached to a university who has not yet
found it akin to being strapped into a 'poetic devitalizer',
all the best,
Rebecca
---- Original message ----
>Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2005 09:29:55 -0700
>From: Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Re: down with the down with poetry crowd
>To: [log in to unmask]
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>On 20-Jan-05, at 11:09 PM, Rebecca Seiferle wrote:
> I can't imagine, for
>> instance, that Doug who's attached to a Canadian university is a
>> devitalized poet
>> as a result.
>
>to which I can only say: I hope not.
>
>Doug
>Douglas Barbour
>Department of English
>University of Alberta
>Edmonton Alberta T6G 2E5 Canada
>(780) 436 3320
>http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/dbhome.htm
>
>The poet is ecstatic, having dreamt of this visit for weeks.
>He takes Erato’s face, dribbling and wild, between his hands
>
>and kisses her gently as if she were a runaway teenager.
>
> Diana Hartog
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