[New-Poetry] 2. webstersdaily (Anny Ballardini)

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This is very useful.  Somehow, the language must be reopened.  I was told
in a very affirmative way at Thanksgiving by a dinnermate from Holland
that he
preferred to speak English because it has many times more words than
Dutch.  More words means he has more ways to say what he thinks.

The "Ocean Poem" you shared the other day emerges from another useful
and related aesthetic.

In thinking about James Wright, or Sylvia Plath, I think about anguished
personalities located in opposition.

In opposition to such oppositions, a poetry that aspires to a condition of
pure music, ambient music currently, seems appropriate.  I'm not talking
Muzak.



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2. webstersdaily (Anny Ballardini)
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> Message: 2
> Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2006 21:08:37 +0100
> From: "Anny Ballardini" <anny.ballardini at tin.it>
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> Josh Wallaert posts one "found poem" every day from the first edition of
> Webster's American Dictionary (1828). For example:
>
> Hope [n.] A sloping plain between ridges of mountains. [Not in
> use.]
>
> http://webstersdaily.blogspot.com