Sounds good to me, Doug. I have heard Clive recite. It's no party trick. We just don't learn to do it any more, most of us. Pressed, I could be sure of recalling Tennyson's Break, Break, Break, from schooldays but little else.
Bill
> On 25 Mar 2015, at 2:08 am, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> Clive James on poetry:
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> http://www.newrepublic.com/article/120881/clive-jamess-poetry-notebook-review utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_term=TNR%20Daily%20Newsletter&utm_campaign=Daily%20Newsletter%20-%203%2F23%2F15
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> I probably disagree about a lot, but some would be interesting, & I agree about language. And, finally, Pound.
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> I’d choose Robert Creeley or Duncan (hell, Adamson, Kroetsch) over Robert Lowell (not to mention Olson) (& then a bunch of women he probably has not read), but that’s my reading…
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> Doug
> Douglas Barbour
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> Recent publications: (With Sheila E Murphy) Continuations & Continuation 2 (UofAPress).
> Recording Dates (Rubicon Press).
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> There is no life that does not rise
> melodic from scales of the marvelous.
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> To which our grief refers.
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> Robert Duncan.
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