you are right, doug, she has sometimes great sentences.
my problem is my tendency to judge everything by
great modernist standards.
i'm not a big fan of paz and borges as artists, but only
- particularly borges - as essayists (you can hit me).
i think brazilians are more instintive and creative, tend to be
the best artists of latin america, and hispano-americans are
more serious and universal, tend to be the best intellectuals.
when i talk about anglo-saxon understanding of latin culture,
i have t.s. eliot, pound, marianne moore, elizabeth bishop,
wallace stevens, mina loy, james joyce and similar others
- including some recent revolutionary translators - in mind.
we could also mention kenneth rexroth.
they're all modern, complex - exept rexroth -, and today we
are reactionary (formally), simplistic.
people just TALK about cosmopolitism, but lack of intelligence
means incapacity to UNDERSTAND - and not incapacity
merely to be interested in - another way of thinking.
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From: "Douglas Barbour" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Monday, August 03, 2009 12:49 PM
Subject: Re: Last Post Laureate
Chacun à son gout, and all that.
Maybe it's because she's somewhat 'poetic' as a novelist?
I do like what work of hers I've read, & find her images sharp, her
sentences often a delight.
Doug
On 31-Dec-02, at 8:32 PM, Ana Olinto wrote:
> winterson is chiefly a novelist. perhaps i've been too harsh with her,
> but
> i'm very critical.
Douglas Barbour
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