There are two kinds of people -- those who forget what the two kinds of
people are, and those who don't. I can explain all of this to you.
Halvard Johnson wrote:
> Reminds me that there are two kinds of people: those who ask what the
> rules are, and those who don't. Which reminds me that there are two
> kinds of people: those who think there are two kinds of people and those
> who don't. Which reminds me of something else, but I've already forgotten
> what.
>
> Which reminds me, Mark, to ask you to bc me with your new snailmail
> address.
> I've got a book to send you. Thanks.
>
> Hal
>
> "The thing to remember is that each time
> of life has its appropriate rewards, whereas
> when you're dead it's hard to find the light
> switch."
> --Woody Allen
>
> Halvard Johnson
> ================
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> http://www.hamiltonstone.org
> http://home.earthlink.net/~halvard/vidalocabooks.html
>
>
>
> On Jul 30, 2007, at 10:40 AM, Mark Weiss wrote:
>
>> Are there rules to this list? I started reading the Old Testament in
>> Hebrew--Genesis was our primer--in first grade. Somewhere in third
>> grade, I think it was, I had to translate (don't ask) Genesis 12.
>> God's command to Abram is the beginning of the Jewish national epic,
>> and it's also in Hebrew pretty great poetry. I think that evening of
>> struggling with the text was the first time I was overwhelmed by
>> language as music. The daily infusion of a couple of hours of really
>> great stuff--by the time I was 12 and left Yeshiva we had made our
>> way through the OT, much of it more than once--was I think
>> determinitive of my vocation, such as it is. Separated (very
>> gratefully, I should add) from that environment, in HS I tried
>> translating Ecclesiastes and the Song of Songs, out of adolescent
>> angst and pure love of the language. I did a terrible job of it, but
>> there are worse ways for a young poet--I started writing when I was
>> 11--to spend his or her time (I got to the worse ways a little later,
>> for which I am eternally grateful).
>>
>> In grade school I was already reading my mother's copy of the 1944
>> edition I think it was of Untermeyer's anthology Modern British and
>> American Poetry, and she had a massive anthology of British Romantic
>> poetry, now lost with all the publishing details, that I also tried
>> to drown in. So those should be added to the list.
>>
>> And I forgot to add Basho, Narrow Road to the Deep North (my first
>> version was the penguin), which profoundly influenced my practice,
>> but well after the other books on this list.
>>
>> Mark
>>
>>
>> At 10:40 AM 7/30/2007, you wrote:
>>> In that case, can I add the Anglican Prayer Book and Psalter to mine?
>>>
>>> joanna
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Weiss"
>>> <[log in to unmask]>
>>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>>> Sent: Monday, July 30, 2007 3:24 PM
>>> Subject: Re: influential books
>>>
>>>
>>>> The Old Testament, first and foremost, so much a presence that I
>>>> forgot to notice it.
>>>> At 10:07 AM 7/30/2007, you wrote:
>>>>> Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
>>>>>
>>>>> Ben Jonson
>>>>>
>>>>> Marvell
>>>>>
>>>>> Moby Dick
>>>>>
>>>>> Mallarme
>>>>>
>>>>> Max Jacob
>
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Tad Richards
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