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Huan Yi Member Ascendant
since 2004-10-12
Posts 6688Waukegan 
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. I would very much like to read a discussion of his poetry. . |
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Stephanos
since 2000-07-31
Posts 3618Statesboro, GA, USA |
would you also like to write a discussion of his poetry? or was this just an interesting bit of autobiography?  |
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Huan Yi Member Ascendant
since 2004-10-12
Posts 6688Waukegan |
. My contribution at this point would be “XIV” which is on Open Poetry #44 of the main forums. . |
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Huan Yi Member Ascendant
since 2004-10-12
Posts 6688Waukegan |
. A bit of a rant. I recently recommended two books of poetry to a friend for his wife’s birthday: the new selected poems by Mark Strand and then the poems of Wislawa Szymborska and ever since I’ve been thinking of how Western sad sack pathetic Mark Strand is by comparison. There’s this element in me now that says: “Grow up Mark, be a man”. I’m reading a biography of Robert Graves and his theme of the White Goddess which claims that a poet, (women are apparently incapable), needs an unobtainable La Belle Sans Merci incarnated at least temporarily in some mortal woman to spur him in masochistic devotion to great poetry. He seems to have actually believed and lived that with Laura Riding who I would have shown the door in a heartbeat. To be crude, in the West then it seems all about getting or not getting laid . . . Arthur Waley, though more diplomatically, commented on this as much before most of us were born in his contrast to Chinese poetry. . |
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