[New-Poetry] Roses Are Red, Violets Are Blue, Auden is Acid, and Y'all Can Go Screw

[Elaine Brown]

Yes.  From what I've seen there are still books coming out.


On 3/6/07 9:05 AM, "Roger Day" <rog3r.day at gmail.com> wrote:

> "The Dildo Returns" should be the title of something, or maybe your
> motto(^_^)?
> 
> I've ploughed through Mendelson's Auden(s) and I think you're right:
> he deliberately structures the books so you're corralled into buying
> all of them, which I had at one point. Correct me if I'm wrong but
> isn't Mendelson's leeching career still on-going? Aren't there more
> books coming out?
> 
> Roger
> 
> On 3/5/07, Robin Hamilton <robin.hamilton2 at btinternet.com> wrote:
>>> Great data, thanks. It confirmed what we had been thinking with great
>>> detail.
>> 
>> Thanks, Skip.  I suppose I should stick it into Wikipedia, save me repeating
>> myself .  <g>
>> 
>> I'm not an Auden specialist, but I do have most of the books on my shelves.
>> An expensive hobby if you're textual obsessive like me.  Anyone wants only
>> one (cheap) text, the paperback _Selected Auden_ edited by Mendelson is the
>> one to go for.  Has exactly 100 poems, about 50/50 pre- and post-1940,
>> giving the original printed versions.  Thus the dildo returns to "In Praise
>> of Limestone".  Doesn't have "A Platonic Blow", but that's here and there on
>> the web.  And a pretty dreadful poem anyway.
>> 
>> Back to trying to work out what the hell is happening in the new translation
>> of (the collected) Zbigniew Herbert.  As far as I can make out, roughly half
>> of the first 150 poems (pre-1969) are simply the Milosz/Dale Scott 1968
>> Penguin translations integrated into the new text.  The information is
>> there, but it take some digging to get to it.  Irritates the hell out of me.
>> 
>> Anyone who's that interested, I've done a spreadsheet correlating the page
>> numbers of the Penguin and Ecco texts that I could send backchannel.  Still
>> haven't got round to actually  *looking at the new translations by Valles.
>> 
>>             :-(
>> 
>> Robin
>> 
>> 
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