Yeah, Roger, the image is bizarre
2008/8/13 Roger Day <[log in to unmask]>:
> That's show biz, folks!1!!!!
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> On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 6:29 PM, David Bircumshaw
> <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> I only found out the other week that Dante's proper given name was
>> Durante. Inner-restin' that.
>>
>> 2008/8/13 Larissa Shmailo <[log in to unmask]>:
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>>> I've translated her "Dante", using the words
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>>> The torch
>>> and the night and the last embrace/
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>>> Beyond the
>>> threshold of fate's wild lament,
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>>> ." And I'd do it again in a heartbeat!
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>>> ; -) L
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>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Alison Croggon <[log in to unmask]>
>>> To: [log in to unmask]
>>> Sent: Wed, 13 Aug 2008 1:37 am
>>> Subject: Re: SNAP: List of Words Never To Be Used in Poems (short list)
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>>> Ha! I love it, Larissa.
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>>> I'm presently reading Akhmatova again, who uses an awful lot of those banned
>>> words. Poets are _so_ disobedient...
>>>
>>> All the best
>>>
>>> Alison
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 12:15 PM, Larissa Shmailo <[log in to unmask]>wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> As usual, my formatting did not come through. Pease read in 3 separate
>>>> paragraphs separated by (in ital)
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>>>> And so far you agree. Well, then....
>>>>
>>>> and
>>>>
>>>> Still with me? How about…?
>>>>
>>>> Also, please read the foreign words in ital.
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>>>>
>>>> Best,
>>>> Larissa
>>>> Larissa Shmailo (http://myspace.com/larissaworld)
>>>> "The poet, like the lover, is a menace on the assembly line."
>>>> -Rollo May
>>>>
>>>> In a message dated 8/12/2008 10:11:25 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
>>>> [log in to unmask] writes:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> List of Words Never To Be Used in Poems
>>>> Soul, being, essence, fire, dream, auburn, scent, inhumanity, starry,
>>>> ripe,
>>>> free, heaven, transcend, memory, butterfly, chrysalis, please, mad,
>>>> ecology,
>>>> teach, tear, lachrymose, cry, frown, smile, love, thought, potential,
>>>> sea
>>> son,
>>>> poetry, verse. Transubstantiate, transform, ascend, breathe, breath,
>>>> usurp,
>>>> sing, shudder, genius, antihero, thrush, lark birdsong, exaltation, maid,
>>>> woman, man, men, attempt, right, am, word, tresses, thrill, form.
>>>> Character,
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>>>> said, desire, longing, elm, oak, tree, flame, yearn, burn, consume, new,
>>>> human,
>>>> bow, warrior, want, page, blank. And so far, you agree. Well, then…
>>>> Understanding, unique, déluge, dacha, manqué, mensch, wheelbarrow,
>>>> manifest,
>>>>
>>>> palimpsest, avatar, sight, seer, samovar, light, ingredient, save, Oprah,
>>>> Jerry, nothing, but, yet. The, a, loneliness, mélange, sea, lighthouse,
>>>> tower,
>>>> healing, light, use, underscore, trial, Kafka, yes, shop, radiant,
>>>> garden,
>>>> fore, yore, music, recollection, last, addiction, evolution. First, over,
>>>> in,
>>>> DNA, Darwinian, medicate, pharmacology, software, star, hardwired,
>>>> stellar,
>>>> bang, relate. Relationship, query, queer, think, survivor, mine, pain,
>>>> sorrow,
>>>> tragedy, woe, enter, laughing, mope, still. Still with me? How about…?
>>>> Life, live, living, hope, horror, help, one, singularity, Buddha, art,
>>>> bomb,
>>>> arms, lines, marital, Broadway, show, tell, ask, mission, missive,
>>>> missile,
>>>> realm, wonder, wander, know, knowledge, reify, epistemological, portent,
>>>> magic, magical, many, omnipotent, avuncular, very, theme, adjective,
>>>> parse,
>>>> nun,
>>>> father, mother, brother, we, our, us, I. Eye, omnibus, rarity, time,
>>>> past,
>>>> future, date, number, year, one, abstrac
>>> t, narrative, native, experiment,
>>>> fusion, phrase, quote, café. Random (or mad), insight, learned, spirit,
>>>> well,
>>>> fine, good, thanks, fine, good. You?
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>>>>
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>>> --
>>> Editor, Masthead: http://www.masthead.net.au
>>> Blog: http://theatrenotes.blogspot.com
>>> Home page: http://www.alisoncroggon.com
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>> 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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