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People of the Abyss - yes! give us a report on yr reading, Mark. That and John Barleycorn stay in my mind and call me one day to reread. Max As for the Left Forum, I presume you haven't been attending it. And where did the Opies' books lead you...? (None of which is strictly poetryetc stuff, but...) Quoting Mark Weiss <[log in to unmask]>: > If by choice you mean somehow piques your interest, sure. Nobody > forces me to open a given book. But it's not just poetry in the > curriculum. For instance, I'm reading an early book of Jack London's, > The People of the Abyss, which I'd never heard of, because Trevor > Joyce is going out with a sociologist who was presenting at The Left > Forum and we arranged to meet in the book section there, where it > caught my eye. Or the Opies' wonderful series of books on the > folklore of childhood, which were lying around the house of a > folklorist friend of mine who said "worth reading." etc. Out of all > of which one improvises a world thus far. > > This is very different from reading within a specialization and > forming one's poetic therefrom. > > Best, > > Mark > > At 11:33 AM 3/31/2010, you wrote: > >But for the writer, Mark, 'accidental on purpose'? > > > >I mean, along the way, many of those 'serendipitous readings' come > >about by choice. I found a copy of Olson's The Maximus Poems (Jargon > >24) in a small bookstore in Halifax, say, & the dedication to 'the > >figure of outside' led me to Creeley? Etc? Which is partly true, > >although, of course, I & my writing friends had already 'found' The > >New American Poetry, but that lucky 'find' was a kind of choice, it > >rather than some of the other anthologies around at the time, which > >didnt offer the same important goods. > > > >Doug > >On 31-Mar-10, at 8:16 AM, Mark Weiss wrote: > > > >>Armand Schwerner called it the "accidental curriculum." > > > >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 > > > > The secret > > > >which got lost neither hides > >nor reveals itself, it shows forth > > > >tokens. > > > > Charles Olson > > 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 > ------------------------------------------------------------ This email was sent from Netspace Webmail: http://www.netspace.net.au