Enigma variations
Or poetry as cod -has a ring to it !cod pieces
P post siesta
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From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
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Sent: 27 June 2008 13:47
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Subject: Re: Poems from Guantanamo
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
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> 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.h
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>
> 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
>
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David Bircumshaw
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