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----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Weiss" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Tuesday, March 28, 2006 10:03 PM Subject: Re: Help! The grass is singing > This is so off-base, Dave, that it's useless to respond. > > > At 09:58 PM 3/28/2006, you wrote: >>Yeah, Mark, I know WCW's big attempt was Paterson, which is a dull >>failure, >>I have read it me ducks, but I think his big push, as a lyric poet, I'm >>one >>meself so I do notice these things, was the 'Asphodel'. It starts well, >>but >>it doesn't sustain itself, it's too I want to sell you something it's the >>American way of life be a consumer in it's feel. The greedy baby >>narcissism, >>which is the besetting sin of US literature, undermines it, rhythmically >>WCW's threadbare technique exposes itself. >> >>As I said before, the highlighting of WCW's fridge poem, I have eaten the >>plums, so nice, fixes him, as the unwitting bard of consumer US-global >>culture, the possession of fridges, as well as big gas-guzzling cars, was >>a >>kind of selling point of US supremacy to the masses. I'm not being >>anglo-centric in this, the UK was a willing and nowadays a very large >>partner (now worldwar-recovered) in all this, dear sweet Aus is joining >>in >>too, ( I've noticed the utter silence about the international festival of >>shots for tv in the name of sport called the Commonwealth Games that has >>just taken place in Melbourne, surely Alison should have noticed, I >>thought >>one or two shots were actually taken from the Strand in Williamstown, and >>as >>for Ireland, well, words fail me, to be sure) >> >>Best >> >>Dave >> Dude really doesn't like Americans. I myself love my refrigerator, wouldn't be without it, and want an even bigger one.