There was an ad for a collection of essays on The Mirror through
history etc, in the LRB awhile ago, but I'll have to go looking to
find it....
Still, the concept is cause for reflection I guess....
Doug
On 3-Apr-09, at 11:34 AM, Martin Walker wrote:
> Yes, Roger - quite an early one & indicating a direction he never
> really followed up, though we do have that "broken bundle of
> mirrors" in the Bertran de Born story poem, "Near Perigord". It's
> hard for me to believe that Oppen wasn't (even if unconsciously)
> picking up on those two. There might be a Mirror anthology on the
> cards - call it "Malice Through the Looking-Glass" perhaps.
> mj
> _______________________________________
> But I am but a nameless sort of person
> (A broken Dandy lately on my travels)
> And take for rhyme, to hook my rambling verse on,
> The first that Walker's Lexicon unravels
>
> - George Gordon, Lord Byron
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Roger Collett" <[log in to unmask]
> >
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Friday, April 03, 2009 7:06 PM
> Subject: Re: [identify] poems by others
>
>
>> [author?]
>>
>> Ezra Pound perhaps? Personae.
>>
>> Roger
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Martin Walker" <[log in to unmask]>
>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>> Sent: Friday, April 03, 2009 5:34 PM
>> Subject: Re: [identify] poems by others
>>
>>
>>> O strange face there in the glass!
>>> O ribald company, O saintly host,
>>> O sorrow-swept my fool,
>>> What answer? O ye myriad
>>> That strive and play and pass,
>>> Jest, challenge, counterlie!
>>> I?I?I?
>>> And ye?
>>>
>>> [author?]
>>> _______________________________________
>>> But I am but a nameless sort of person
>>> (A broken Dandy lately on my travels)
>>> And take for rhyme, to hook my rambling verse on,
>>> The first that Walker's Lexicon unravels
>>>
>>> - George Gordon, Lord Byron
>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Douglas Barbour" <[log in to unmask]
>>> >
>>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>>> Sent: Friday, April 03, 2009 5:16 PM
>>> Subject: Re: poems by others
>>>
>>>
>>>> Oh, yes,
>>>>
>>>> And then I begin to think of our Performing Selves, just who (&
>>>> how old is he) am I putting on for you today?
>>>>
>>>> Often curmudgeonly, yells at things, & is really really pissed
>>>> that he can't remember names & many words when he needs them....
>>>>
>>>> Doug
>>>> On 3-Apr-09, at 9:10 AM, Martin Walker wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> [THE OLD MAN] The old man In the mirror Startles Me But the
>>>>> young man In the photograph Is stranger Still.
>>>>>
>>>>> George Oppen
>>>>> _______________________________________
>>>>> But I am but a nameless sort of person
>>>>> (A broken Dandy lately on my travels)
>>>>> And take for rhyme, to hook my rambling verse on,
>>>>> The first that Walker's Lexicon unravels
>>>>>
>>>>> - George Gordon, Lord Byron
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 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.html
>>>>
>>>> It's always night or we wouldn't need light.
>>>>
>>>> Thelonious Monk
>
Douglas Barbour
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Latest books:
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http://www.uap.ualberta.ca/UAP.asp?LID=41&bookID=664
Wednesdays'
http://abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2008/03/new-from-aboveground-press_10.html
It's always night or we wouldn't need light.
Thelonious Monk
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