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

[Anny Ballardini]

I read somewhere that English is the language with most words, but since I 
do not have the reference I might be inventing.
I particularly liked the "Ocean Poem", it is one of the best poems I have 
recently "seen".

Agreed from here with what you are saying.

From: <elemenope at icubed.com>
Sent: Tuesday, November 28, 2006 1:28 AM


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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.
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> The "Ocean Poem" you shared the other day emerges from another useful
> and related aesthetic.
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> In thinking about James Wright, or Sylvia Plath, I think about anguished
> personalities located in opposition.
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> 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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