Yo, tell Carlos I gave you and Judy permission to correct his table
manners. God I wish I was there.
Ask him about the fox.
Mark
At 10:28 AM 10/22/2009, you wrote:
>OK, I realise my natural cynicism is causing me to misread the poem,
>and that what he is actually doing is (as Desmond suggests) creating
>a subversive po=mo anti-text, by denying any poetic ability (it's as
>likely that he'll be capable of writing her praises as an owl is of
>looking at the sun) at the same time that he manifests this ability
>in the text which he is creating. Clever bugger, i'n't he? K, now to
>wait for the son of another listmember to turn up at the hotel
>(Glasgow) to meet for a coffee. Might try and digitally record
>Carlos -- got maybe an hour of me and Tom Leonard chatting in the
>cafe opposite the Glasgow University Library yesterday. Jeezus, all
>this personal stuff is worse than a blog. Like this
>one:
>http://drraghnall.blogspot.com/2009/10/morning-tea-in-george-square.html
>Robin --- On Thu, 22/10/09, ROBIN HAMILTON
><[log in to unmask]> wrote: > From: ROBIN HAMILTON
><[log in to unmask]> > Subject: Re: Missing Heyrick >
>To: [log in to unmask] > Date: Thursday, 22 October, 2009,
>3:12 PM > OK already,I read it. I suppose > for the Leicester
>connection. Actually, it read quite > well, A reasonably competent
>piece of work, except it seemed > a little ... impolite. > > I mean,
>unless I'm misreading it, he's saying that his > ladylove will be
>able to make him write in her praises when > she manages to get an
>owl to look straight at the sun. > D'uh! > > Robin
Announcing The Whole Island: Six Decades of Cuban Poetry (University
of California Press).
Forthcoming in November 2009.
http://go.ucpress.edu/WholeIsland
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