"You must change your life"
I've never thought of that as a fatuous inanity so much as a statement
of fact...
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On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 2:47 AM, Roger Day <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> I don't think you need be famous to to be capable of "fatuous inanities".
>
> Roger
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> On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 4:54 PM, David Bircumshaw
> <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> I doubt if poetry changes the poet, except during the act of writing,
>> or maybe afterwards in intimate reception. What does change the poet
>> is reputation, then he or she can become capable of fatuous inanities.
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>> 2008/8/27 Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]>:
>>> Thanks for this, Pierre; I'm usually too busy to remember to check your blog
>>> until you remind me.
>>>
>>> Really enjoyed Insider.
>>>
>>> And this from the article on Darwish, all too true I suspect:
>>>
>>> In a 2002 interview, Darwish stated: "I thought poetry could change
>>> everything, could change history and could humanize, and I think that the
>>> illusion is very necessary to push poets to be involved and to believe. But
>>> now I think that poetry changes only the poet."
>>>
>>> Doug
>>> On 27-Aug-08, at 6:03 AM, Pierre Joris wrote:
>>>
>>>> Well, summer's over — or so it seems because teaching has started up again
>>>> & I'm trying to get up to speed with posting on Nomadics.
>>>> Enjoy these recent posts by going to: http://pjoris.blogspot.com
>>>>
>>>> The State of Things by Ligorano/Reese
>>>> Global warming time bomb trapped in Arctic soil
>>>> Pélieu & Beach: "Insider"
>>>> The Jewel of Medi(n)a
>>>> Failing Darwish's Legacy
>>>> The Saif Ghobash – Banipal Prize
>>>> Jürgen Habermas on a "Post-Secular Society"
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> be well,
>>>>
>>>> Pierre
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>>>
>>> Douglas Barbour
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>>> 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
>>>
>>> A little planet blues, for the
>>> deathwatch.
>>> A season of rictus riffs.
>>>
>>> Dennis Lee
>>>
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>> David Bircumshaw
>> Website and A Chide's Alphabet http://homepage.ntlworld.com/david.bircumshaw/
>> The Animal Subsides http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/books/animal.html
>> Leicester Poetry Society: http://www.poetryleicester.co.uk
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