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Douglas Barbour wrote >which I hear on the readio < ...an interesting addition to the slew of parapraxes popping up recently*, Douglas ~ makes it sound like a bunch of rough riders bucking the bounce outta their material, before goin on the roadio agin. * I think Ruark's "cicatraces" was intentional, but >It's a privilege and one that I don't take likely< in the moving mail Alison forwarded probably not. As to the theme of the thread: of course, a whole lot of "high" art is full of >Comedy, even song, & parodies<, see Shakespeare, Joyce, Nabokov e tutti quanti. And quite a bit of Auden would become even more popular if there were more movies with scenes like the one in 4 -ings & a -al. Wouldn't it be fun to drop the Snapshot project for a while at least & have a Comedy, Song & Parody project on Wednesdays? Then the best ones could be sprayed on the walls of the London Underground (or wherever) by intrepid chaps like Patrick & instant fame would result, discussions in the H of C maybe (to take the heat off cardiacly palpitating Ton'...) Cheers Martin Quote Jobby #5 SCORPION Faced by that exceeding precision (with the insight, for love of the Real?) the metallic mirror of a lake deludes. One knows moreover of a trace of murk. Loss loss. Scorpion. I heard it say to the fish: what is it that stings us? I can see wave, cloud; I can see ashes swarming. Dip the bird's ripped-out quill in the moist decay. It writes what is after us. Ernst Meister 1960 M.J.Walker Lagorce F-07150 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Douglas Barbour" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Monday, October 20, 2003 4:11 PM Subject: Re: Alan Sherman (was: 'poem' by George Bush) > This whole thread is interesting in the light of that comment on whether or > not poetry can reach a wide audience etc (not). > > Comedy, even song, & parodies people understand (which means of something > they know, so a parody of 'high' art, so to speak, will reach a much > smaller audience than one of popular), and, of course, the conventional > forms of fiction (& the conventional forms within the various kinds of > fiction & non-fiction) will reach the wider audiences... > > Thus the continuing popularity of at least that one Alan Sherman piece, > which I hear on the readio at least once a year... > > Doug > > Douglas Barbour > Department of English > University of Alberta > Edmonton Alberta Canada T6G 2E5 > (h) [780] 436 3320 (b) [780] 492 0521 > http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/dbhome.htm > > No one could be > more hostile than a species enclosed in > a chimney for a century or so they told me. > > Clark Coolidge