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[David Bircumshaw]

The message is beautiful enough in itself Anny: 'When you look back on a lifetime and think of what has been given to the world by your presence, your fugitive presence, ' that's so touching.

thanks

Best

Dave

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Anny Ballardini 
  To: New Poetry 
  Sent: Tuesday, May 23, 2006 9:35 PM
  Subject: [New-Poetry] from the WOM-PO list


  sent by Ingrid Wendt
  sent by Olga Broumas:

  I find it very moving, and think you will, too.   A few minutes ago I tried sending the audio file with this message to everyone, but it's too big and won't be accepted by the wompo server.   If anyone is interested in hearing it, please backchannel.

  Ingrid   (idwendt at comcast.net)

  When you look back on a lifetime and think of what has been given to the world by your presence, your fugitive presence, inevitably you have to think of your art, whatever it may be, as the gift you have made to the world in acknowledgement of the gift you have been given, which is the life itself. And I think the world tends to forget that this is the ultimate significance of the body of work each artist produces. It is not an expression of the desire for praise or recognition, or prizes, but the deepest manifestation of your gratitude for the gift of life. 

  Stanley Kunitz
  1905-2006
  from The Wild Braid, W.W. Norton, 2005


  idwendt at comcast.net
  http://www.ingridwendt.com
  http://www.ncte.org/profdev/onsite/consultants/wendt



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