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His half-sister loved Big Brother L On Fri, October 2, 2009 16:52, Mark Weiss wrote: > But loved reality tv. > > > At 11:09 AM 10/2/2009, you wrote: > >> Byron detested the cinema >> >> >> L >> >> >> I >> >>> don't know quite why it should be, but perhaps a generalised sense of >>> neglect and cultural demotion by parvenus such as the novel and film >>> >>> >>> Doug >>> Douglas Barbour >>> >> >> -- >> Lawrence Upton >> AHRC Creative Research Fellow >> Dept of Music >> Goldsmiths, University of London >> > > Announcing The Whole Island: Six Decades of Cuban Poetry (University > of California Press). Forthcoming in November 2009 2009. > To read more go to: http://go.ucpress.edu/WholeIsland > > > "The Whole Island is a masterwork of cartography: a map of what is, > for English-language readers, an almost unexplored territory, full of > poets--at home and in the diaspora--whom we ought to know." -Eliot > Weinberger > > > "A definitive anthology guiding curious poets, literary scholars and > teachers, and generations of readers out of the shadow of ignorant, > imperialist 'lockdown' surrounding the breadth and power of Cuban poetry. > [Weiss] provides a salient, comprehensive introduction > covering the fascinating vidas of individual poets, literary movements, > political exigencies, and the vicissitudes of an ongoing cultural struggle. > But the imagination of the poetry rules. What emerges is an > essential compendium to world literature. Presente!" -Anne > Waldman > > -- Lawrence Upton AHRC Creative Research Fellow Dept of Music Goldsmiths, University of London Lawrence Upton is a Member of The Avant-Offgarde