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UC Press demanded that I get pewrmission from poets to quote their answers to emails about my translations. I already had their permission for everything else. I stalled, and finally said, "you're kidding, right?" To which they responded, "do you really really promise there won't be trouble?" Oy. At 10:47 AM 3/5/2010, you wrote: >I did, David. > >On a somewhat related note, at her reading at the university last >week, Karen Connolly read from a non-fiction work about Burma, & a >love affair there among other things; after which one of my still >teaching colleagues mentioned that he was now being asked to carry a >release form whenever he might 'use' someone else's speech (even, say, >overhearing people talking at the next table in a restaurant: you can >imagine). He gave us the term: 'ethics creep,' which can be read so >many ways. Made me glad I was outside that institution now: whither >imagination? > >Doug >On 5-Mar-10, at 5:02 AM, David Bircumshaw wrote: > >>If interested please go to www.libelreform.org and sign the PEN >>sponsored >>petition for a reform of the English libel laws, to prevent foreign >>litigants using British courts to suppress books and articles to >>which they >>object. >> >> >>-- >>David Bircumshaw >>"A window./Big enough to hold screams/ >>You say are poems" - DMeltzer >>Website and A Chide's Alphabet >>http://www.staplednapkin.org.uk >>The Animal Subsides http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/books/animal.html >>Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/david.bircumshaw >>twitter: http://twitter.com/bucketshave >>blog: http://groggydays.blogspot.com/ > >Douglas Barbour >[log in to unmask] > >http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/ > >Latest books: >Continuations (with Sheila E Murphy) >http://www.uap.ualberta.ca/UAP.asp?LID=41&bookID=664 >Wednesdays' >http://abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2008/03/new-from-aboveground-press_10.html > >It is ink >on paper love > > Frank O'Hara Announcing The Whole Island: Six Decades of Cuban Poetry (University of California Press). http://go.ucpress.edu/WholeIsland "Not since the 1982 publication of Paul Auster's Random House Book of Twentieth Century French Poetry has a bilingual anthology so effectively broadened the sense of poetic terrain outside the United States and also created a superb collection of foreign poems in English. There is nothing else like it." John Palattella in The Nation