[New-Poetry] Birthday boy/Simic

[Anny Ballardini]

The true big political corpse to be removed in Europe is the pope, the others are sort of empty puppets with lots of psychological problems
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  In a message dated 5/9/2006 11:11:35 AM Eastern Standard Time, halvard at earthlink.net writes:
    But it's too bad he got stuck in that very 
    recognizable style he found fairly early.
  I;m fond of Simic's poetry (& prose poety...that's
  poetry too), but I do see a certain similarity
  in the world-view of the post-WWII Eastern European
  poets/writers. No matter what the topic, they
  can't help themselves but to widen the aperture
  of the piece to include some socio-political comment,
  generally tilting toward the negative or world-weary.
  Of course cultures that lived through two world
  wars in less than a half-century, have certainly
  been wounded psychically. Style can be kind
  of scar.
  Finnegan 


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