You speculating on something there, Doug? Bit enigmatic...
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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
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From: "Douglas Barbour" <[log in to unmask]>
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> 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
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>> 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"
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>> >
>> 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?]
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>>>> 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"
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>>>> >
>>>> 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
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>>>>>> 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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>>>>>
>>>>> It's always night or we wouldn't need light.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thelonious Monk
>>
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> Douglas Barbour
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> 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
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