[New-Poetry] BESTEST CITY FOR POETRY

[David Bircumshaw]

This is interesting, Anny. I have an abiding memory of Lisboa as the place I never went to: this was in the late 80's and the train from Madrid used to seperate somewhere around the Andalusian border, I don't recall exactly where, one bit going to Lisbon the other to Malaga or Seville etc. We always took the Spanish option.

best

Dave 
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Anny Ballardini 
  To: NewPoetry: Contemporary Poetry News &Views 
  Sent: Wednesday, July 19, 2006 6:05 AM
  Subject: Re: [New-Poetry] BESTEST CITY FOR POETRY


  I think I agree, think of Lisbon (Lisboa) and Pessoa. I went there to see it just because of the poet and whatever I saw (filthiness / religious fanaticism acting through obscure Catholicism / such) just brought me back to the poet, to how he transformed it or how it resonated in him. 
  Only the new Arts Center (new several years ago), spectacular indeed, brought me to a different dimension.

    From: Halvard Johnson 
    &Views 
    Sent: Wednesday, July 19, 2006 3:53 AM



    Any city a poet finds him/herself in. 


    Hal


    "A sudden silence in the middle of a conversation
     suddenly brings us back to essentials: it reveals
     how dearly we must pay for the invention of
     speech."
    --E. M. Cioran


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