[New-Poetry] max jacob's preface, etc

[Anny Ballardini]

Hi ami Alex,

yes, and no, to answer your question. As a matter of fact there are several contradicting answers, which makes the work interesting.
Objectively and from the outside and the inside (since I am also a blogger) I noticed that several did not speak outright on this point as you are doing. There is a sort of Leopardi syndrome among poets, that if something does not work as it should then it is due to me, to the world, to the existential air of our breathing, ...
Not that this disturbs me, nor do I praise such an attitude, I am just considering.
On the other hand James for one, as I said before, highlights the difference in-between blogs and lists to show how much more lively lists are, with the "dialogue" you say blogs miss. Bob Grumman, to stay on this list, complains of the lack of comments. 
...


From: "Alexander Dickow" <alexdickow9 at yahoo.com>
Sent: Monday, January 08, 2007 5:22 PM

> Anny, btw: those blog interviews are pretty cool. I'd
> imagine someone must have mentioned this among the
> fifteen or so respondants, but I for one am somewhat
> disappointed with the lack of visible dialogue on
> blogs. I find that people don't comment so much -- not
> on my blog, and for the most part not elsewhere.
> Wasn't that supposed to be one of the perks of blogs?
> I'd be curious to know people's thoughts about this.
> Oh, and speaking of translations and foreign poets,
> I'm looking for Joaquin Pasos' "Poems by a Young Man
> Who Doesn't Speak English" in English. And, if that's
> impossible, a good single volume translation of Pasos.
> Thanks!
> Amicalement,
> Alex
> 
> 
> www.alexdickow.net/blog/
>   
>  les mots! ah quel désert à la fin
>  merveilleux. -- Henri Droguet
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