Ah, but that's the fun. You get be him - or her - warts'n'all.
I read "With the Grain" a while ago and found it interesting, the
Hardy piece has stayed with me.
Roger
On 2/21/07, Barry Alpert <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Feb 2007 15:08:29 +0000, Roger Day <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> "Who wants to be Donald Davie?"
>
> I studied [with] him, edited him, learned a lot from him. He was very
> smart. So I'll be happy to "be" him, as long as I can excise his
> reactionary aspects. In fact, many of the snaps I've posted extrapolate
> from his book "Articulate Energy" and from my introductory essay to "The
> Poet in the Imaginary Museum". Barry Alpert
>
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