Milton Kessler got Bunting to come to Binghamton for a year in the early 1970s. I had no contact with him except to see him exert a forbidding presence as he stormed up and down the hallways wearing a jacket and wool scarf, staring dourly past everyone in the vicinity. Frankly I was afraid of his reputation.
Ken
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On Mar 17, 2011, at 1:24 PM, Douglas Barbour wrote:
> Sadly, Barry, he never got to U of A. I discovered him somewhat late & after he had left Canada. He certainly had some effect, though, & Peter Quartermain knew him & has written on his work. Others in BC mustve met him & heard him (I know Fred Wah did, but possibly in the US).
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> Doug
> On 2011-03-17, at 9:44 AM, Barry Alpert wrote:
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>> I enjoyed reading August Kleinzahler's account of studying with Basil Bunting in Victoria, B.C. Did BB ever give a reading at U of Alberta while he was in Canada? Or elsewhere outside British Columbia? I taught his work many times in a course entitled Modern British Poetry, but have no trouble regarding him as a "major Modernist poet".
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>> Barry
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>> On Thu, 17 Mar 2011 08:35:40 -0600, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>>> 'Bunting was Britain�s greatest Modernist poet (by some way, although admittedly the field isn�t large) and yet he is slipping away from us.'
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>>> But then he is also a major Modernist poet, not just in Britain, & over in North America his, admittedly small during his lifetime, readership did recognize that.
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>>> One of the ones to re-read.
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>>> Doug
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