On Sat, 10 May 1997, orpheus wrote:
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> Tell me how you made this inference from an expression on his face
> which may have been deliberate and simply part of the mask that Hughes
> (like veryone) wears, God have you guys got a bone to pick with him dont
> you??? Not one exampke thought have any of you provideed to abck up yer
> positions and yet some have implied that I, am caught up in some hero
> woshippingg crap... god what a stew of resentment!
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> And someone in earlier post Asked me who I was, well hell it
> doesnt mater. lets say Im Jean Genet's bastard son. It has nothing to do
> with what I think of Hughes and company. NAd besides Hughes has written
> plenty since Crow christ what about the whole Moortown thats a pretty good
> chunk of poetry in there...........
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> On Fri, 9 May 1997,
> Keston Sutherland wrote:
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> > When I saw Hughes read, we was far from expressionless. Variously
> > contorted in fact, not least of all in his prefaces to the poems, which
> > expressed, lucidly and with candour, his almost complete dissatisfaction
> > with most of his work.
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Wasn't just an expression on his chops, Cliff - he said so explicitly.
Something like "I'm totally dissatisfied with almost everything I've ever
written".
But as you say, silly to get tribal over Hughes.
He's had enough of our time, I'm thinking.
Someone pick another - you say you like Johnny Rotten, why not him for a
while.
I suppose our animosity could be peculiarly English. But then so is
Hughes.
Keston.
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