Hi Halvard,
as a matter of fact here are a couple of void messages. I don't know if this
will come through, will try.
--- MC Ward <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> > I'd like to charm
> > out of the blue
> > (Candice>
> > --- Joseph Duemer <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> > > How is it that Louise Gluck has missed out? I'd
> > have
> > > thought she'd be a
> > > natural.
> > >
> > > --
> > > Joseph Duemer
> > > Professor of Humanities
> > > Clarkson University
> > > [sharpsand.net]
> > >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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--- Barry Alpert <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> The invisible judges attended her readings and
> couldn't help laughing at
> her. Louise Gluck is unintentionally campy in my
> experience. One of her
> friends, Howard Norman, tried to deflect my critique
> (after witnessing LG
> for the first time) by admitting she could be
> "precious".
>
> Barry Alpert
>
>
> On Sun, 5 Aug 2007 13:05:46 -0400, Joseph Duemer
> <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> >How is it that Louise Gluck has missed out? I'd
> have thought she'd be a
> >natural.
>
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I'd just as soon gather for cakebut leaves when- ever.
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--- Kenneth Wolman <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> TheOldMole wrote:
> > Out of curiosity, I checked Wiki and compiled this
> list of poets
> > who've won MacArthur grants . One thing that
> surprised me was how many
> > of these poets I'd never heard of.
> >
> > A. R. Ammons
> > Joseph Brodsky
> > Derek Walcott
> > Robert Penn Warren
> > Brad Leithauser
> > A.K. Ramanujan
> > Robert Hass
> > Charles Simic
> > Galway Kinnell
> > John Ashbery
> > Daryl Hine
> > Jay Wright
> > Douglas Crase
> > Richard Kenney
> > Mark Strand
> > May Swenson
> > Allen Grossman
> > Jorie Graham
> > John Hollander
> > Alice Fulton
> > Eleanor Wilner
> > Amy Clampitt
> > Irving Feldman
> > Thom Gunn
> > Ann Lauterbach
> > Jim Powell
> > Adrienne Rich
> > Sandra Cisneros
> > Richard Howard
> > Thylias Moss
> > Susan Stewart
> > Linda Bierds
> > Edward Hirsch
> > Ishmael Reed
> > Campbell McGrath
> > Anne Carson
> > Lucia M. Perillo
> > C. D. Wright
> >
> >
> > Years in which no poet won a MacArthur Grant:
> 1982, 1988, 2001, 2002,
> > 2003, 2005, 2006 ... a distressing trend?
>
> Repeat after me: Oh Well.
>
> > And if we were to take a vote on who the least
> deserving MacArthur
> > recipient was, who would win?
> >
> No way am I, the representative of tranquility,
> going to take the bait
> on *that* one. All I will say is that at a half
> million bucks per
> writer, a lot of that money could have bought
> pencils, pens, books, and
> binders for kids in inner city schools.
>
> Ken
>
> --
> --------------------
> Ken Wolman rainermaria.typepad.com
>
> We're neither pure, nor wise, nor good
> We'll do the best we know.
> We'll build our house and chop our wood
> And make our garden grow...
>
> Bernstein/Wilbur, "Candide"
>
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--- MC Ward <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> I'd like to charm
> out of the blue
> (Candice)
>
>
>
> --- Joseph Duemer <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> > How is it that Louise Gluck has missed out? I'd
> have
> > thought she'd be a
> > natural.
> >
> > --
> > Joseph Duemer
> > Professor of Humanities
> > Clarkson University
> > [sharpsand.net]
> >
>
>
>
>
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On 8/7/07, Halvard Johnson <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> Actually, Candice's posts weren't blank, as I recall, but contained
> quotes from others' postings with nothing of hers added.
>
> Hal
>
> "Go ahead and look for God, but
> tie up your camel first."
> --Sufi proverb
>
> Halvard Johnson
> ================
> [log in to unmask]
> http://home.earthlink.net/~halvard/index.html
> http://entropyandme.blogspot.com
> http://imageswithoutwords.blogspot.com
> http://www.hamiltonstone.org
> http://home.earthlink.net/~halvard/vidalocabooks.html
>
>
> On Aug 7, 2007, at 4:23 AM, Joanna Boulter wrote:
>
> > Candice, I too have noticed several blank posts coming in to the
> > list as from you rcently. Since they were all very close together,
> > I simply assumed that the buttons had as it were bounced before you
> > were ready, or copied you, or something like that. At any rate,
> > that it was the practicalities of email playing up.
> >
> > I would like to point out that this sometimes happens as from other
> > members' addresses too, from time to time. A hiccup in the ether,
> > or something like that, which soon settles down. It'll probably do
> > it to me now -- this is after all magic we're playing with!
> >
> > joanna
> >
> > ----- Original Message ----- From: "MC Ward" <[log in to unmask]>
> > To: <[log in to unmask]>
> > Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2007 4:58 AM
> > Subject: Re: I said he was my favorite literary character...
> >
> >
> >> People with big mouths would find my alleged abuse of
> >> the form disappointing (or cliched), as I've never
> >> sent a blank post in my life. As for relevance, ah,
> >> that's in the eyes of the beholdrum.
> >>
> >> Madam, check your sources!
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >> Candice
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> --- Anny Ballardini <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >>
> >>> It seems that you have submitted several blank posts
> >>> & others that seem
> >>> disconnected from the conversation. Take care,
> >>>
> >>> Anny
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On 8/6/07, MC Ward <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >>> >
> >>> > Sorry, Anny, I have no idea what you're talking
> >>> about.
> >>> > Please send some examples.
> >>> >
> >>> > Candice
> >>> >
> >>> >
> >>> > --- Anny Ballardini <[log in to unmask]>
> >>> wrote:
> >>> >
> >>> > > Excuse me Candice Ward,
> >>> > >
> >>> > > do you have any problems? Let us know what is
> >>> wrong,
> >>> > >
> >>> > > Best wishes,
> >>> > >
> >>> > > Anny Ballardini
> >>> > > http://annyballardini.blogspot.com/
> >>> > >
> >>> http://www.fieralingue.it/modules.php?name=poetshome
> >>> > > http://www.moriapoetry.com/ebooks.html
> >>> > > I Tell You: One must still have chaos in one to
> >>> give
> >>> > > birth to a dancing
> >>> > > star!
> >>> > > Friedrich Nietzsche
> >>> > >
> >>> > >
> >>> > >
> >>> > > On 8/6/07, MC Ward <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >>> > > >
> >>> > > > --- Anny Ballardini
> >>> <[log in to unmask]>
> >>> > > wrote:
> >>> > > >
> >>> > > > > Jeex, 2 nice days in a year_ I just listened
> >>> to
> >>> > > > > Prairie Home Companion, I
> >>> > > >
> >>> > > > > know, I know, nobody likes it here....
> >>> > > > >
> >>> > > > >How brave you are, Verena!
> >>> > > >
> >>> > > > Candice
> >>> > > > >
> >>> > > > > On 8/5/07, Frederick Pollack
> >>> > > <[log in to unmask]>
> >>> > > > > wrote:
> >>> > > > > >
> >>> > > > > > ----- Original Message -----
> >>> > > > > > From: "Kenneth Wolman"
> >>> > > <[log in to unmask]>
> >>> > > > > > To: <[log in to unmask]>
> >>> > > > > > Sent: Sunday, August 05, 2007 4:33 PM
> >>> > > > > > Subject: Re: I said he was my favorite
> >>> > > literary
> >>> > > > > character...
> >>> > > > > >
> >>> > > > > >
> >>> > > > > > > Frederick Pollack wrote:
> >>> > > > > > >>
> >>> > > > > > >> I see Pynchon's point about the "width
> >>> and
> >>> > > > > tallness" of the wind along
> >>> > > > > > >> 14th St. But as a native and
> >>> ever-homesick
> >>> > > > > Chicagoan I must say that,
> >>> > > > > > >> for sheer intensity of Venturi effect,
> >>> any
> >>> > > > > east-west street in the
> >>> > > > > > Loop,
> >>> > > > > > >> between State St. and Michigan Avenue,
> >>> > > beats
> >>> > > > > 14th St. by a mile. Plus
> >>> > > > > > >> the tendency for that wind to change
> >>> > > direction
> >>> > > > > in an instant - off the
> >>> > > > > > >> prairie, then off the Lake - without
> >>> losing
> >>> > > > > speed. Carried me and my
> >>> > > > > > >> umbrella a block once when I was ten.
> >>> > > > > > >
> >>> > > > > > > Xmas week 1973 I go to the MLA
> >>> convention,
> >>> > > held
> >>> > > > > that year in Chicago.
> >>> > > > > > > They stuck us in great hotels: I was in
> >>> the
> >>> > > > > Palmer House. All the
> >>> > > > > > > graduate students are job-hunting, very
> >>> taut
> >>> > > and
> >>> > > > > open to raucousness.
> >>> > > > > > > Male faculty, after a year in
> >>> Binghamton,
> >>> > > act
> >>> > > > > like a bunch of miners
> >>> > > > > > down
> >>> > > > > > > the hills of Colorado. So do the
> >>> females.
> >>> > > We
> >>> > > > > start drinking Canadian
> >>> > > > > > > Club at 9:00 AM. Parties, condolence
> >>> > > sessions,
> >>> > > > > bacchanalia all the
> >>> > > > > > > livelong day. I get to witness Leslie
> >>> > > Fiedler
> >>> > > > > groping two women at
> >>> > > > > > once.
> >>> > > > > > > The party is the Joyce Society or some
> >>> such
> >>> > > > > thing and it feels like 100
> >>> > > > > > > people stuffed into a room the size of a
> >>> > > > > wristwatch. Everyone is
> >>> > > > > > smoking
> >>> > > > > > > something and everyone is real drunk.
> >>> > > Later, my
> >>> > > > > roomie and I kill
> >>> > > > > > another
> >>> > > > > > > bottle at 2:00 AM. I leave him watching
> >>> > > Lanza
> >>> > > > > in The Great Caruso and
> >>> > > > > > > pass out. Oddly, I don't feel drunk.
> >>> At
> >>> > > 7:00 I
> >>> > > > > get my wake-up call
> >>> > > > > > from
> >>> > > > > > > the desk. Immediately I am convinced I
> >>> am
> >>> > > going
> >>> > > > > to die. My fingernails
> >>> > > > > > > hurt. Once I am able to get out of bed
> >>> > > without
> >>> > > > > fear of a technicolor
> >>> > > > > > yawn
> >>> > > > > > > all over the carpet, I discover the pain
> >>> of
> >>> > > > > water in a shower. Years
> >>> > > > > > > later I am reminded of this horror when
> >>> I
> >>> > > read
> >>> > > > > about a very ill Teresa
> >>> > > > > > of
> >>> > > > > > > Avila confined to a Spanish sanatorium
> >>> where
> >>> > > > > they tie dead chickens to
> >>> > > > > > her
> >>> > > > > > > suppurating wounds, figuring one poison
> >>> > > drives
> >>> > > > > out another. I slink
> >>> > > > > > into
> >>> > > > > > > corners afraid someone will spot me.
> >>> This
> >>> > > is
> >>> > > > > hilarious since everyone
> >>> > > > > > is
> >>> > > > > > > in the Parker House coffee shop nursing
> >>> > > > > independently-acquired
> >>> > > > > > hangovers.
> >>> > > > > > >
> >>> > > > > > > The operator on the phone had cheerily
> >>> > > announced
> >>> > > > > that it was 35 degrees
> >>> > > > > > in
> >>> > > > > > > Chicago. That doesn't sound cold. Then
> >>> I
> >>> > > hit
> >>> > > > > Michigan Avenue, hangover
> >>> > > > > > > and brains in hand, and discover a
> >>> typhoon
> >>> > > > > blowing up...and the freaking
> >>> > > > > > > SUN is out. Binghamton got cold too but
> >>> the
> >>> > > > > wind always died down when
> >>> > > > > > > the temperature approached laboratory
> >>> > > absolute
> >>> > > > > zero. THIS is atrocious.
> >>> > > > > > > "Windy City" they called it. I suppose
> >>> they
> >>> > > > > still call it that?
> >>> > > > > > >
> >>> > > > > > > ken
> >>> > > > > > >
> >>> > > > > > > --
> >>> > > > > > The Palmer House should have warned you.
> >>> Wind
> >>> > > > > chill in Chicago can make
> >>> > > > > > Minnesotans cry. -- Summer, on the other
> >>> hand,
> >>> > > > > kills people by the
> >>> > > > > > hundreds.
> >>>
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> >>
> >>
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