Anny, I'm flattered to make your list. Ward, however,
was originally Bard and originated in Northern
Ireland.
Candice
--- Anny Ballardini <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> 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/
> >
> >
> >
> > > 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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