But loved reality tv.
At 11:09 AM 10/2/2009, you wrote:
>Byron detested the cinema
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>I
> > don't know quite why it should be, but perhaps a generalised sense of
> > neglect and cultural demotion by parvenus such as the novel and film
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> > Doug
> > Douglas Barbour
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>Lawrence Upton
>AHRC Creative Research Fellow
>Dept of Music
>Goldsmiths, University of London
Announcing The Whole Island: Six Decades of Cuban Poetry (University
of California Press).
Forthcoming in November 2009 2009.
To read more go to: http://go.ucpress.edu/WholeIsland
"The Whole Island is a masterwork of cartography: a map of what is,
for English-language readers,
an almost unexplored territory, full of poets--at home and in the
diaspora--whom we ought to know."
-Eliot
Weinberger
"A definitive anthology guiding curious poets, literary scholars and
teachers, and generations of
readers out of the shadow of ignorant, imperialist 'lockdown'
surrounding the breadth and power of
Cuban poetry. [Weiss] provides a salient, comprehensive introduction
covering the fascinating vidas
of individual poets, literary movements, political exigencies, and
the vicissitudes of an ongoing cultural
struggle. But the imagination of the poetry rules. What emerges is an
essential compendium to
world literature. Presente!"
-Anne
Waldman
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