Misty.
At 12:38 PM 7/10/2010, you wrote:
>how do you think the cloud in trousers felt?
>
>On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 9:32 AM, David Bircumshaw <[log in to unmask]
> > wrote:
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> > We were talking to a venerable literary lady yesterday and she recalled
> > how
> > when William Empson was once staying with her and her husband he came
> > downstairs evidently agitated and brandishing a pair of scissors,
> > announcing
> > that he was unable to escape from his trousers. He'd been trying without
> > success to cut his way out. The famously eccentric author of 'Seven Types
> > of
> > Ambiguity' had been temporarily deserted by the conceptual constructs
> > 'buttons' and 'how to undo them'.
> >
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> >
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>
>--
>All best,
>Catherine Daly
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Announcing The Whole Island: Six Decades of Cuban Poetry (University
of California Press).
http://go.ucpress.edu/WholeIsland
"Not since the 1982 publication of Paul Auster's Random House Book of
Twentieth Century French Poetry has a bilingual anthology so
effectively broadened the sense of poetic terrain outside the United
States and also created a superb collection of foreign poems in
English. There is nothing else like it." John Palattella in The
Nation
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