Shame on you, Doug.
I looked it up. According to wikipedia, named for a district in
London, presumably in term named for somebody named Edmond.
Did you know that the
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hadrosaur>hadrosaur
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmontosaurus>Edmontosaurus is named
for the city? Used to live there, apparently.
Calgary is of course named for the town in Scotland.
http://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/mull/calgary/index.html.
Canadian place names. On a moonless night in the late sixties,
deadheading at a hundred miles an hour west across the continent,
where there had been no sign of life for hours, I saw ahead a huge
dome of light. It was like traveling through outer space and sighting
an unknown life form. Which it was. Regina. Which ever after my wife
of the time called Vagina, because it amused us. We kept going,
stopping in the wee hours in Moose Jaw, named for the viceroy of
Femur in the Langerhans archipelago.
At 02:28 PM 2/10/2010, you wrote:
>Well, that'd be nice. And I have no idea....
>
>Doug
>On 10-Feb-10, at 9:23 AM, Mark Weiss wrote:
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>>Maybe we can get me to Edmonton some time.
>>
>>Who was Edmon?
>
>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
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>Swept snow, Li Po,
>by dawn's 40-watt moon
>to the road that hies to office
>away from home.
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> Lorine Niedecker
Announcing The Whole Island: Six Decades of Cuban Poetry (University
of California Press).
http://go.ucpress.edu/WholeIsland
"Not since the 1982 publication of Paul Auster's Random House Book of
Twentieth Century French Poetry has a bilingual anthology so
effectively broadened the sense of poetic terrain outside the United
States and also created a superb collection of foreign poems in
English. There is nothing else like it." John Palattella in The
Nation
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