By the way, here’s Todd’s review of Identity Parade which has been
edited by Roddy Lumsden:
http://toddswift.blogspot.com/2010/03/review-swift-on-identity-
parade.html
On Sun, 14 Mar 2010 09:19:12 -0600, Douglas Barbour
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>Dave
>
>I take your point, but you get paid? What for? It sounds more like a
>police line-up....
>
>What exactly is it?
>
>Doug
>On 14-Mar-10, at 3:36 AM, David Bircumshaw wrote:
>
>> I don't know about anything else in this dispute but has anyone else
>> here
>> ever been on an Identity Parade? I have, and they are drab,
>> disjunctive,
>> mean-and-petty-spirited, depressing, cold, ludicrous, disquieting
>> affairs
>> which leave an unpleasant taste in the mouth and a bad feeling on
>> the skin.
>> And you get paid in small change!!
>> I can't think of a less appropriate title for a poetry anthology,
>> it's a
>> misfired metaphor that feels like something straight out of an
>> advertising
>> agency's box of cheap triX.
>> (I'm over 45 and out of the anthology's age range so I have no
>> personal
>> interest, as it were)
>
>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
>
> The secret
>
>which got lost neither hides
>nor reveals itself, it shows forth
>
>tokens.
>
> Charles Olson
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