[New-Poetry] Re: Gilbert

[Suzanne Burns]

On 9/1/06, Anny Ballardini <anny.ballardini at tin.it> wrote:
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> First link I found for you to have an idea:
> http://www.arte.go.it/mostre/vedova/niccoli/index.htm
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> That is how a strong personality/artist usually plays on students.
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Nice link!

People also say this quite a bit about artists who study with Wolf Kahn and
fall a bit too much under his influence-- they call them "Wolf Pups". This
syndrome is older than the hills I think.

But for heaven's sake who in their right mind wants to be that? Your first
responsibility as a person and artist/poet is to know yourself and be who
you actually are, not take on someone else's voice or follow their recipe.
You have to stand or fall on your own.

I am not suggesting that anyone who worked with Jack did that deliberately--
but I found that taking too much of his advice could easily made my work
sound "Jackish" even in ways I did not anticipate. Small things, like using
the sentence fragment too much. :-)  In the end I needed to get away from
that. When I was finishing my Master's thesis he wanted to help me edit it,
and I  declined the offer-- rightly I think.

Suzanne
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