Thank you. I'll have a welsh rarebit in your honor and then get out my banjo.
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From: Roger Day <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask]
Sent: Thursday, December 6, 2007 1:41:45 PM
Subject: Re: The thick-skinned good old days
As usual, you have a cooler and better head than me in these matters.
A clarity and calmness. I wish I could have said these things with
such ease. In full agreement with you.
I was thinking the other day that I do contain a certain un-English
passion and hot-headedness. I'm part Welsh, and my welshness maybe a
major part of me.
Roger
On Dec 4, 2007 9:32 PM, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
> Some poesy, at any rate. And you are continuing to do so, so you may.
>
> I have been reading all this with a certain distance. I guess Joe,
you
> can dislike any poetry you want to, & so can we all. I find a lot of
> so-called language poetry exciting & far more interesting than some
of
> the poetry RS has named as School of Queitude. On the other hand,
> there;s a lot of so-called LangPo bores me.
>
> On the other other hand, his blog often contains information that is
> interesting, useful, etc. Some of the books he praises I know I would
> like; others, not. So?
>
> I think some of his ideas about poetry are useful some not. But the
> fact of thinking & arguing such ideas, whether or not they turn out
to
> be the ideas (the poetics) I finally take on, is also useful.
>
> And sometimes, perhaps, your thinking does that too. At other times,
I
> just don't get what you're nattering on about, or why you're
bothering
> (as is often likely for my readers, too).
>
> Doug
> On 3-Dec-07, at 7:00 PM, joe green wrote:
>
> > Just a decent regard for poesy. And, may I say, a refusal to be
> > intimidated by the many?
> >
> > No, I may not!
> Douglas Barbour
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>
> beautiful, charcoal, beautiful, like words
> that never get old, the sons of thunder beating
>
> C.D. Wright
>
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