Yet I like Gray's early poems a lot - an Eastern-influenced imagist with a
good set of ears. Ah, the creator and the work - a whole different
conversation.
I did a reading in another city recently, and a person in the crowd was
'disappointed' I was a quiet sober man now! He had me set as the Beat poet
with a joint in one hand and a vodka in the other of decades ago. Ha ha -
to get to 67 one has to calm down.
Andrew
On 14 January 2012 07:17, Jill Jones <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> yes, Doug, plenty of their own work in this anth. as well as the odd if at
> times slightly offensive introductions to each poet
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> On 14/01/2012, at 2:47 AM, Douglas Barbour wrote:
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> Ha: I remember their earlier anthology, which, to my taste, left out a
>> lot of the most interesting of their contemporaries; & I can bet they now
>> leave out some of the most interesting younger ones.... Shall we say,
>> ultra-trad? But as I recall, they do like their own work....
>>
>> Doug
>> On 2012-01-12, at 2:18 PM, Max Richards wrote:
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>>> Release Date: 01 October 2011
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>>> On 13/01/2012, at 2:54 AM, Douglas Barbour wrote:
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>>> Ah: some info there, Jill. I take you meant 1000 pages?
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>>>> Yikes.
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>>>> Doug
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