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From: bogus_at_does.not.exist.com
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1998 17:37:50 -0700
Had I but one wish for books of poetry it would be: PUT THEM IN PAPERBACK so that they would be within the financial reach of young people. I've tried to jam this sentence into various articles and interviews about poetry but have been edited. I think that wish is most important.
Grandma
who thanks Megan for her kind words. By the way, everything I choose is eminently readable--orally and aurally.
The Pulitzer poet is also really worth reading. Complex--but simple enough to understand.
And, rah for Poet Laureat of the U.S., Robert Pinsky for continuing Robert Hass campaign for poetry.
A good site on the WEB is The Academy of American Poets: http://www.poets.org/
Would anyone care to discuss the importance of memorization? I think it's important and always had my students memorize. Well, I've written enough on this subject to be bored with it myself but I always hope that there's someone out there who might take up the battle in this increasingly noisy world. Poetry can be the quiet place between the noise and memorizing can bring it to mind and creat quiet.
G.
AND....if you have time, please read a brilliant book--poetic in its diction in a strange way: Virginia Euwer Wolff's "Bat Six." (Scholastic). Astounding. (How often do I froth at the mouth about a novel?)*
*Don't answer that.
================="You may not be able to change the world, but at least you can embarrass the guilty." Jessica Mitford (191796)
Received on Wed 15 Apr 1998 07:37:50 PM CDT
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1998 17:37:50 -0700
Had I but one wish for books of poetry it would be: PUT THEM IN PAPERBACK so that they would be within the financial reach of young people. I've tried to jam this sentence into various articles and interviews about poetry but have been edited. I think that wish is most important.
Grandma
who thanks Megan for her kind words. By the way, everything I choose is eminently readable--orally and aurally.
The Pulitzer poet is also really worth reading. Complex--but simple enough to understand.
And, rah for Poet Laureat of the U.S., Robert Pinsky for continuing Robert Hass campaign for poetry.
A good site on the WEB is The Academy of American Poets: http://www.poets.org/
Would anyone care to discuss the importance of memorization? I think it's important and always had my students memorize. Well, I've written enough on this subject to be bored with it myself but I always hope that there's someone out there who might take up the battle in this increasingly noisy world. Poetry can be the quiet place between the noise and memorizing can bring it to mind and creat quiet.
G.
AND....if you have time, please read a brilliant book--poetic in its diction in a strange way: Virginia Euwer Wolff's "Bat Six." (Scholastic). Astounding. (How often do I froth at the mouth about a novel?)*
*Don't answer that.
================="You may not be able to change the world, but at least you can embarrass the guilty." Jessica Mitford (191796)
Received on Wed 15 Apr 1998 07:37:50 PM CDT
