> the review
> >>consisted entirely of Scannell saying the poems
> >>didn't make any sense. He quoted a whole poem to
> >>demonstrate this point, making no other comment.
Quite useful, I should say. At least enabled readers to meet the work --
and most likely feel challenged to disagree with the crusty old fart,
that's what people do with the papers at Sunday breakfast isn't it?
> It may not be entirely irrelevant
> that he was at one time a professional boxer.
Oh really -- so was A. Cravan, and I believe he was ... fairly
open-minded?
e
P.S. I am not the person of my name who appeared in another Sunday comic
last week writing about growing up in Wales, even though I did (grow up
in Wales). I want everyone to know that.
--
Elizabeth James
National Art Library, Victoria & Albert Museum, London SW7 2RL
+44 (0)171 938 8460; fax +44 (0)171 938 8461
"to catalogue is not merely to ascertain ... but also to appropriate"
(R. Barthes)
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