Many happy returns Barry. When did Rio become the world's purported capital, or did I miss something? P > -----Original Message----- > From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On > Behalf Of Barry Alpert > Sent: 30 December 2007 17:28 > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Turning . . . > > I turn 39 today. Am happy to entertain your wish lists (or those of your > friends and associates) for rare volumes of poetry and literary magazines. > Or uncommon etcetera in any field. > > Must now depart for the purported world's capital (I can remember when it > was a sleepy southern city), where I'm being treated to a film set in > Bucharest in 1911 about the clash between early cinema and established > theatre, followed by the Brazilian national dish. > > > Barry Alpert