Chaucer's wife was not John of Gaunt's daughter, David, but his eventual
sister-in-law.
What on earth was he doing in Leicester, apart from getting married?
best joanna
----- Original Message -----
From: "David Bircumshaw" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2006 8:48 PM
Subject: Re: A Berkeley Reading - Geraldine Monk & A Halsey
> Stephen
>
>> This transparency and dialog between past and present I find quite rich -
>> perhaps influenced but different than the Olson take.
>
> I doubt if Olson is a particular influence. It's hard not to notice the
> past
> here: from where I sit now, in a not especially historical provincial
> English city, Richard tthe IIIrd's bones lie buried unmarked within a
> quarter-mile's walk, while Chaucer was married to a daughter of John of
> Gaunt in the local church. And the forbiding faced social housing tower
> block I live is named after a mediaeval baron.
>
>>Maybe because English
>> history is so much longer and with more depth than chez here - these
>> folks
>> (tho their English neighbors might ignore their works) are genuinely
> infused
>
> I'm lost among the pronouns here.
>
> Yes, btw, Geraldine +does+ read exceedingly well.
>
> Best
>
> Dave
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Stephen Vincent" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2006 7:53 PM
> Subject: A Berkeley Reading - Geraldine Monk & A Halsey
>
>
>> Geraldine Halsey and Alan Halsey's reading last at Moe's Bookstore in
>> Berkeley (CA) did not disappoint. Geraldine has a great
>> reading voice - particularly in reviving the body & voice behind the
>> Ghost
>> of Mary Queen of Scots (imprisoned in Escafeld/Sheffield for 14 years - a
>> fact apparently ignored these days by the locals). Geraldine really
> 'rolls'
>> with it with lots of curious, inflected surprises along the way.
>> Alan is equally, but different, in his historical 'made present
>> 'investigations, including a rather wonderful account of Guttenberg's
> ghost,
>> the printed book confronting the digital virtal mode - using Google to
>> search, and an automatic translation device to get at G's history, mostly
> in
>> German. Guttenberg's original name apparently translates into English as
>> "Goose Flesh", and Guttenberg translates into "Good Mountain." Alan
> combines
>> a wonderful sense of serious, research, intellection and imaginative
> passion
>> to make the work quite present, compelling.
>> This transparency and dialog between past and present I find quite rich -
>> perhaps influenced but different than the Olson take. Maybe because
> English
>> history is so much longer and with more depth than chez here - these
>> folks
>> (tho their English neighbors might ignore their works) are genuinely
> infused
>> - tho not at all oblivious to contemporary ironies, borderline flarfy
>> (Blair, Google et al).
>>
>> - SPD carries their West House Books imprint - quite beautifully
> produced.
>>
>> They will be coming to NY/St. Marks sometime soon
>>
>> Stephen Vincent
>> http://stephenvincent.net/blog/
>
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