Even more likewise here, Pierre, I'm catching up on about 20 days of
mail. I didn't know that fine poet had departed either.
Thanks Rachel
Best
unprovincial provincial Dave
2008/10/9 Pierre Joris <[log in to unmask]>:
> Yes, I'm here, Rachel — just got back in fact & catching up with 10 days of
> mails — so your message announcing the Death of Haavikko was the first I
> heard of it — Very sad — I never met the man, but he clearly was a major
> voice of Finnish poetry — will post on him tomorrow on Nomadics — Pierre
> On Oct 8, 2008, at 9:20 AM, Rachel Loden wrote:
>
>> Interesting that the only response is here, on this least provincial of
>> lists.
>>
>> And he's in /Poems for the Millennium/, for crying out loud. (Pierre
>> Joris,
>> are you out there?)
>>
>> It's as if Creeley or Ashbery died and nobody said anything. But of course
>> my own ignorance is vast.
>>
>> I've put up another poem ("A Flower Song") and an early picture of him,
>> taken around the time the poem was written.
>>
>> http://wordstrumpet.blogspot.com/
>>
>>
>>> lepää rauhassa---Rests in peace
>>> P
>>>
>>> lepää rauhassa
>>>
>>> KS
>>>
>>> 2008/10/7 Rachel Loden <[log in to unmask]>
>>>
>>>> Life being short, poverty and wealth
>>>> are final verdicts, in that
>>>> poverty and life are of equal duration
>>>> and wealth and cold indifference
>>>> are perennial and hereditary, like diseases.
>>>>
>>>> (from /May, Eternal/, 1988, tr. by Anselm Hollo)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> And, briefly:
>>>> The old part (1754-1762) is known as
>>>> The Winter Palace.
>>>> Accordingly everything,
>>>> Floor, ceiling, walls
>>>> Is covered with these exalted beings:
>>>> Venus, Jupiter, many ladies
>>>> Of a full-bodied vintage.
>>>> You can still see how many a man
>>>> Lost head and hat
>>>> By the Berezhina River,
>>>> You can see that Borodino
>>>> Was a victory;
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Of such
>>>> I'm talking, here,
>>>> Under the roof
>>>> Thatched by my hair.
>>>>
>>>> (from /The Winter Palace/, 1959, tr. by Anselm Hollo)
>>>>
>>>> http://wordstrumpet.blogspot.com/
>>>>
>>>
>
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