Quoting Joseph Duemer <[log in to unmask]>:
I wish
> Snyder hadn't given up writing in English -- he might have had a chance if
> he hadn't tried to import Japanese syntax into his native language, winding
> up with an arrhythmic patios. But when he ruined his language he ruined his
> thought as well. His work from the sixties is beautiful, though.
>
> jd
>
> On 2/10/07, Peter Cudmore <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >
> > And it would be a bit odd if poets hadn't heard other poets read, eh?
> >
> > We get so many of them passing thru Edinburgh, it would be hard to know
> > where to start.
Grateful for the above remark about Snyder, who did not engage my ear when he
read in Melbourne.
Very old Robert Graves filled a big hall, but I recall only his physical
presence and the sound of his voice.
In Edinburgh I heard Ted Hughes read at the Univ - before the Plath furore. He
hated answering questions, but when I asked if any critic of poetry had been
worth reading he answered Leavis.
Also in the mid60s I heard Norman Maccaig - ('Mr Maccaig, what do you think of
Philip Larkin?' Maccaig:'Six feet of dandruff.')
And my old teacher (Auckland), Thomas Crawford the Burns scholar, took me to the
Borders village (name? Biggar?) to ply the very old Hugh McDiarmid with whisky
and Mrs Grieve with chocolates.
Conversation? no memory...
best from Max
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