And Lezama, Kozer, Haroldo de Campos, the entire
group around Tse-tse, Perlongher, David Huerta,
Garcia Vega, Zurita, Denis, tons of others.
At 04:32 AM 8/4/2009, you wrote:
>Interesting erasure of Vallejo in this twist I notice.
>
>2003/1/1 Ana Olinto <[log in to unmask]>
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> > you are right, doug, she has sometimes great sentences.
> > my problem is my tendency to judge everything by
> > great modernist standards.
> >
> > i'm not a big fan of paz and borges as artists, but only
> > - particularly borges - as essayists (you can hit me).
> > i think brazilians are more instintive and creative, tend to be
> > the best artists of latin america, and hispano-americans are
> > more serious and universal, tend to be the best intellectuals.
> >
> > when i talk about anglo-saxon understanding of latin culture,
> > i have t.s. eliot, pound, marianne moore, elizabeth bishop,
> > wallace stevens, mina loy, james joyce and similar others
> > - including some recent revolutionary translators - in mind.
> > we could also mention kenneth rexroth.
> > they're all modern, complex - exept rexroth -, and today we
> > are reactionary (formally), simplistic.
> >
> > people just TALK about cosmopolitism, but lack of intelligence
> > means incapacity to UNDERSTAND - and not incapacity
> > merely to be interested in - another way of thinking.
> >
> > -------------- ana
> >
> > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Douglas Barbour" <
> > [log in to unmask]>
> > To: <[log in to unmask]>
> > Sent: Monday, August 03, 2009 12:49 PM
> > Subject: Re: Last Post Laureate
> >
> >
> > Chacun à son gout, and all that.
> >
> > Maybe it's because she's somewhat 'poetic' as a novelist?
> >
> > I do like what work of hers I've read, & find her images sharp, her
> > sentences often a delight.
> >
> > Doug
> > On 31-Dec-02, at 8:32 PM, Ana Olinto wrote:
> >
> > winterson is chiefly a novelist. perhaps i've been too harsh with her,
> >> but
> >> i'm very critical.
> >>
> >
> > Douglas Barbour
> > [log in to unmask]
> >
> > 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
> >
> > Each leaf a runnel the
> >
> > roofs now skiffs in green
> >
> > I’ve never done anything
> >
> > but begin.
> >
> > Lisa Robertson
> >
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>
>--
>David Bircumshaw
>"A window./Big enough to hold screams/
>You say are poems" - DMeltzer
>Website and A Chide's Alphabet
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