Re.: "emigrant"
please Stephen do not take it personally, but I cannot hold it..:
Vincent: French
Johnson: English
Wolman: German
Ward: English
Alpert: German
Pollack: Polish
Green: English
Weiss: German
Ballardini: Italian (previously French: Ballard)
who is autoctonous here?
On 8/2/07, Stephen Vincent <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> I suspect the trouble with Simic is that he long ago exhausted what he could
> mine from a limited frame. Which was, initially, quite wonderful (and, yes,
> even though personally obviously ambitious in traditional career track ways,
> he was, and probably remains a good guy.) Born in Yugoslavia (I think), he
> took his tools from Z Herbert(?), and other mid-century middle European
> surrealist minimalists, and got that aesthetic frame transferred into
> English. In the way, that is often irritating, these exile qualities got
> picked up as either exotic, or as exemplars of freedom by the lit
> establishment during the Cold War(as was true of many such writers,
> interesting or not, from the Soviet Bloc). Interesting that - as the cold
> war renews itself, the threat of Russia, the expansion of Nato - that we go
> from a Nebraska corn man to an emigrant for our laureate. It is, after all,
> a political position/appointment.
>
> It will be interesting to see if he does anything interesting.
>
> Stephen V
> http://stephenvincent.net/blog/
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>
> > Does anyone know how much The New Yorker pays for each poem they publish?
> >
> > Occasionally I look at (even sometimes read) Charles Simic's editorial
> > choices for the Paris Review, but I was not that intrigued by his own work
> > when I first encountered him within the contexts of "5 Blind Men" and
> > Kayak. I can remember nothing from a lunch Howard Schwartz and I had with
> > him when he was at Cal State, Hayward in the early seventies, other than my
> > continuing impression that he's not a bad guy.
> >
> > Wish I could follow exactly how you treated your source, Hal, but in 95
> > degree heat I'm not immediately going to rush off to a library which might
> > have bound volumes of The New Yorker.
> >
> > Barry Alpert
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