I don't think you need be famous to to be capable of "fatuous inanities".
Roger
On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 4:54 PM, David Bircumshaw
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> 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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> Leicester Poetry Society: http://www.poetryleicester.co.uk
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