I'm fine with that.
At 12:55 PM 2/12/2007, you wrote:
>Maybe we could restrict it to anecdotes about
>Paris Hilton?
>
>Hal
>
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> obscures vision."
> --Charlie Chan
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>On Feb 12, 2007, at 11:47 AM, Mark Weiss wrote:
>
>>If we must do this let's remember that poets are people (even us),
>>unlike, say, Paris Hilton. One man or woman's anecdote is another's
>>violation of dignity or privacy. How about we restrict it to the dead?
>>
>>Mark
>>
>>At 12:31 PM 2/12/2007, you wrote:
>>>The poet anecdote project could be worthwhile. My first
>>>suggestion is
>>>that it should have its own subject heading on pect if it's going to
>>>be discussed further. I could contribute a Basil Bunting encounter
>>>which might have some interest.
>>>
>>>I believe the romantic view of pronouns in poetry is that they all
>>>mean "I". The classic view would be that they are all masks in the
>>>interiors of which, because they are empty, "I" and "you" and "we"
>>>can
>>>fuse.
>>>
>>>I also met Jon Silken once and talked with him a little.
>>>
>>>A friend of mine knew Frost at Amherst. One interesting thing he
>>>told
>>>me was that when Frost made his recording of "Birches," he was first
>>>offered a bolstering shot of whiskey, which he accepted.
>>>
>>>Some people may find my interpretations of Keats's sounds fanciful,
>>>but a lifetime of reading poetry convinces me that the greatest poets
>>>can achieve things like that. Of course I can't prove it, but I've
>>>long felt that the things you can prove in poetry aren't really what
>>>you should be paying attention to.
>>>
>>>My own feeling is that T. S. Eliot's reading voice was effective for
>>>his poetry. Someone once described it as "suitably sepulchral." The
>>>disappointment for me was Robert Graves, a poet I admire greatly but
>>>who read (on the recordings I've heard) in a flat, restrained,
>>>expressionless voice.
>>>
>>>Pound on the other hand is outrageously expressive. In his recording
>>>of Canto I, he reads English as if it were Provencal.
>>>
>>>There exists a brief recording of Walt Whitman (made by Thomas Edison
>>>on wax cylinder; its authenticity has been questioned but I tend to
>>>think it's real.) My reaction on first hearing it was, absurdly, "He
>>>sounds so American."
>>>
>>>
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>>>
>>> Jon Corelis www.geocities.com/jgcorelis/
>>>
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