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On 03/10/06, joe green <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> There are too many books and too few good poems.
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> Kent Johnson <[log in to unmask]> wrote: Pierre Joris said:
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> >Jerry Rothenberg is now given as at "over
> seventy," (which, admittedly includes his translations &
> collaborations, but given that several of tthose come to over 800
> pages a volume, they should count...),
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> Gosh, Pierre... *Of course* they count. In fact, in my book, a
> collection of translations counts more than a collection of "original"
> poetry! Poetry is merely the shadow of translation, really, though
> convention has it the other way around.
>
> And Poems for the Millennium counts for, say, ten books of original
> poetry...
>
> [obsequious curtsy...]
>
> or were you being cleverly facetious?
>
> Kent
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