Interesting erasure of Vallejo in this twist I notice.
2003/1/1 Ana Olinto <[log in to unmask]>
> you are right, doug, she has sometimes great sentences.
> my problem is my tendency to judge everything by
> great modernist standards.
>
> i'm not a big fan of paz and borges as artists, but only
> - particularly borges - as essayists (you can hit me).
> i think brazilians are more instintive and creative, tend to be
> the best artists of latin america, and hispano-americans are
> more serious and universal, tend to be the best intellectuals.
>
> when i talk about anglo-saxon understanding of latin culture,
> i have t.s. eliot, pound, marianne moore, elizabeth bishop,
> wallace stevens, mina loy, james joyce and similar others
> - including some recent revolutionary translators - in mind.
> we could also mention kenneth rexroth.
> they're all modern, complex - exept rexroth -, and today we
> are reactionary (formally), simplistic.
>
> people just TALK about cosmopolitism, but lack of intelligence
> means incapacity to UNDERSTAND - and not incapacity
> merely to be interested in - another way of thinking.
>
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> Chacun à son gout, and all that.
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> Maybe it's because she's somewhat 'poetic' as a novelist?
>
> I do like what work of hers I've read, & find her images sharp, her
> sentences often a delight.
>
> Doug
> On 31-Dec-02, at 8:32 PM, Ana Olinto wrote:
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> winterson is chiefly a novelist. perhaps i've been too harsh with her,
>> but
>> i'm very critical.
>>
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