Welcome to the list, officially speaking here, Yerra.
And congratulations to you too.
Doug
On 11-May-05, at 9:38 AM, Yerra Sugarman wrote:
> Dear Pierre,
>
> Thank you for posting this. Congratulations!!! And I think that
> you've
> given me the courage to introduce myself to this amazing list. I've
> been a bit
> shy about doing so, but I've really been enriched by all of the voices
> here. My
> deepest thanks to Alison, whose wisdom and brilliance has been
> inspiring to
> me.
>
> Anyway, hi to all of you! My name is Yerra Sugarman, and I am very
> honored
> to be on a list with Pierre, whom I admire so very much. My first
> poetry
> collection, FORMS OF GONE (Sheep Meadow Press), also received one of
> this year's
> PEN awards, the PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award for a new poet. The book is
> about
> having grown up among Holocaust survivors, so the award is especially
> meaningful.
> I hope you all don't mind my saying that.
>
> I was born in Toronto (Canada), but I've lived in New York for a long
> time.
> I teach at NYU and at City College.
>
> Apologies for my having been so reticent for so long.
>
> Warmly,
> Yerra Sugarman
>
>
Douglas Barbour
Department of English
University of Alberta
Edmonton Alberta T6G 2E5 Canada
(780) 436 3320
http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/dbhome.htm
O baby, get out of Egypt –
This history is not for you,
Get out of there, out of my path,
Out of my speechless mouth, the Egypt shrieking
a redundant, plundering tongue . . .
An ancient slang speaks through me like that.
Gwendolyn MacEwen
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