Yes, Roger - quite an early one & indicating a direction he never really
followed up, though we do have that "broken bundle of mirrors" in the
Bertran de Born story poem, "Near Perigord". It's hard for me to believe
that Oppen wasn't (even if unconsciously) picking up on those two. There
might be a Mirror anthology on the cards - call it "Malice Through the
Looking-Glass" perhaps.
mj
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But I am but a nameless sort of person
(A broken Dandy lately on my travels)
And take for rhyme, to hook my rambling verse on,
The first that Walker's Lexicon unravels
- George Gordon, Lord Byron
----- Original Message -----
From: "Roger Collett" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Friday, April 03, 2009 7:06 PM
Subject: Re: [identify] poems by others
> [author?]
>
> Ezra Pound perhaps? Personae.
>
> Roger
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Martin Walker" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Friday, April 03, 2009 5:34 PM
> Subject: Re: [identify] poems by others
>
>
>>O strange face there in the glass!
>> O ribald company, O saintly host,
>> O sorrow-swept my fool,
>> What answer? O ye myriad
>> That strive and play and pass,
>> Jest, challenge, counterlie!
>> I?I?I?
>> And ye?
>>
>> [author?]
>> _______________________________________
>> But I am but a nameless sort of person
>> (A broken Dandy lately on my travels)
>> And take for rhyme, to hook my rambling verse on,
>> The first that Walker's Lexicon unravels
>>
>> - George Gordon, Lord Byron
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Douglas Barbour" <[log in to unmask]>
>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>> Sent: Friday, April 03, 2009 5:16 PM
>> Subject: Re: poems by others
>>
>>
>>> Oh, yes,
>>>
>>> And then I begin to think of our Performing Selves, just who (& how old
>>> is he) am I putting on for you today?
>>>
>>> Often curmudgeonly, yells at things, & is really really pissed that he
>>> can't remember names & many words when he needs them....
>>>
>>> Doug
>>> On 3-Apr-09, at 9:10 AM, Martin Walker wrote:
>>>
>>>> [THE OLD MAN] The old man In the mirror Startles Me But the young man
>>>> In the photograph Is stranger Still.
>>>>
>>>> George Oppen
>>>> _______________________________________
>>>> But I am but a nameless sort of person
>>>> (A broken Dandy lately on my travels)
>>>> And take for rhyme, to hook my rambling verse on,
>>>> The first that Walker's Lexicon unravels
>>>>
>>>> - George Gordon, Lord Byron
>>>>
>>>
>>> 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's always night or we wouldn't need light.
>>>
>>> Thelonious Monk
>>
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