You Brits are always ahead up there, the geographical position justifies the
increased Illumination.
On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 2:47 PM, David Bircumshaw <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
> I'm very aware about poetry as code, Doug, what's increasingly
> worrying me is that code might be an Enigma.
>
> (we Brits cracked that years ago)
>
> Yrs
>
> Illuminatus
>
> 2008/6/21 Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]>:
> > Actually, the first thing I want to 'share' with you all I found only
> by
> > happenstance; the friends we were traveling with brought along a recent
> copy
> > of Utne Reader, with a review of this new book, Poems from Guantanamo,
> > edited by some of the lawyers representing the detainees. Who had a lot
> of
> > trouble even getting permission to translate & publish the poems, having
> to
> > vet every one of them with the Pentagon. As the article said, 'The US
> > government contends that poetry presents a "special risk" to national
> > security, since the form lends itself to coded communication.'
> >
> > Now we know, we poets.
> >
> > On the loose,
> >
> > Doug
> >
> > (you can imagine what these poems actually say...)
> > Douglas Barbour
> > [log in to unmask]
> >
> > http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/
> >
> > Latest books:
> > Continuations (with Sheila E Murphy)
> > http://www.uap.ualberta.ca/UAP.asp?LID=41&bookID=664
> > Wednesdays'
> >
> http://abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2008/03/new-from-aboveground-press_10.html
> >
> > A nation that expects to be ignorant and free, and in a state of
> > civilization, expects what never was and never will be. --
> > Thomas Jefferson
> >
>
>
>
> --
> David Bircumshaw
> Website and A Chide's Alphabet
> http://homepage.ntlworld.com/david.bircumshaw/
> The Animal Subsides http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/books/animal.html
> Leicester Poetry Society: http://www.poetryleicester.co.uk
>
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