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I've only read the one book of hers, Doug, it was 'The Autobiography of Red', and I did find much of it effective, and affecting, particularly the earlier and latter parts. Best Dave David Bircumshaw Leicester, England Home Page A Chide's Alphabet Painting Without Numbers http://homepage.ntlworld.com/david.bircumshaw/index.htm ----- Original Message ----- From: "Douglas Clark" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Friday, March 08, 2002 11:29 PM Subject: Re: authorships I have given up on Anne Carson. I think it is three of her books I have bought now. She is a poet but I have got fed up with her. She seems to be dragging out the kitchen sink of her early rejected writing nowadays. She was alright in her time but that has gone. Poetry is not about being intellectual and clever. Douglas Clark, Bath, England mailto: [log in to unmask] Lynx: Poetry from Bath .......... http://www.bath.ac.uk/~exxdgdc/lynx.html On Fri, 8 Mar 2002, david.bircumshaw wrote: > <snipplesnapple> > > Dave, sounds like you were reading Emily Bronte in hospital! > > smiple, > > Kent > > > Not quite, but I did read Elaine Feinstein's biography of Ted Hughes, which > certainly includes both moorlands and Yorkshire. And is a very drably > written book, I felt. And Heaney's 'Electric Light', which didn't seem to be > connected to the mains, and Anne Carson (who was) and Fred Hoyle's potboiler > 'October the First is Too Late' which was better than the first two. > > Best > > Dave > > > David Bircumshaw > > Leicester, England > > Home Page > > A Chide's Alphabet > > Painting Without Numbers > > http://homepage.ntlworld.com/david.bircumshaw/index.htm > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "KENT JOHNSON" <[log in to unmask]> > To: <[log in to unmask]> > Sent: Friday, March 08, 2002 4:48 PM > Subject: Re: authorships > > > David B. said, > > <snupple> > > ...a rest now, Christopher, if you don't mind, as I am convalescing > from an illness and tire easily at present. > > <snipplesnapple> > > Dave, sounds like you were reading Emily Bronte in hospital! > > smiple, > > Kent >