[New-Poetry] from Seamas Cain

[Anny Ballardini]

"... rare and first editions of modern and contemporary poetry, in addition
to literary journals, broadsides, manuscripts, audiovisual materials, and
even objects."

.. mouth watering ... the incredible would be if it was located in an attic,
and - as you say - for an entire year...

On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 9:45 PM, <jforjames at aol.com> wrote:

> Emory's library also got the 75,000 volumes of poetry donated by Raymond
> Danowski in 2004.
> I'd love to get lost in their stacks for about a year.
>
> http://marbl.library.emory.edu/danowski-poetry-library.html
>
> If you look at the bottom of this webpage it appears there was a big
> exhibit of the collection curated by Kevin Young this past year.
>
> Finnegan
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Anny Ballardini <anny.ballardini at gmail.com>
> Sent: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 1:25 pm
> Subject: [New-Poetry] from Seamas Cain
>
> _______________
>
>
> The Papers of the Irish poet Thomas Kinsella have gone to the MARBL
> Library at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.
>
> For a detailed inventory of the Papers of Thomas Kinsella, go to
> http://irishliterature.library.emory.edu/content.php?id=kinsella774_1010913
>
> Amazingly, the MARBL Library at Emory also holds the Papers of the
> Irish poets Seamus Heaney, Ciaran Carson, Peter Fallon/The Gallery
> Press Collection, Ted Hughes, Michael Longley, Derek Mahon, Medbh
> McGuckian, Charles Montieth, Paul Muldoon, Edna O'Brien, Desmond
> O'Grady, Frank Ormsby, Tom Paulin, and James Simmons as well as other
> more or less contemporary Irish poets.  Most of these manuscript
> collections have been purchased by Emory.
>
> For an index of Irish literary collections,
> mostly at the MARBL Library of Emory University, go to
> http://irishliterature.library.emory.edu/browse.php
>
> Amazing! that the National Library of Ireland would not have acted
> more decisively to keep these manuscript collections (of literary and
> historic importance) in Ireland!
>
> Or, is it not so amazing after all? given the back-of-the-hand
> treatment to most Irish authors in the past and present.
>
> For information about the Irish
> Literary Collections Portal, go to
> http://irishliterature.library.emory.edu/
>
> In 1985, in Duluth, Minnesota, I was privileged to introduce Thomas
> Kinsella at his reading before an audience of 400 people.  I enjoyed
> several days of lengthy conversations with Kinsella.  I learned quite
> a lot from him about the varieties of innovative and not-so-innovative
> approaches to contemporary poetry.  Indeed, it is NOT Seamus Heaney
> but Thomas Kinsella that I see as the grand old man of contemporary
> Irish poetry!
>
> At that time, on his visit in 1985, Kinsella was very interested to
> learn of Lady Augusta Gregory's reaction to the city of Duluth.  In
> February of 1914, Lady Gregory came to Duluth to participate in the
> founding of the Little Theatre, a breakaway from the commercial
> theatre of that day.  (Bernard Shaw was also involved in the founding
> of this Little Theatre.)  As Lady=2 0Gregory arrived on the scene, the
> harbor and the western end of Lake Superior were filled with ice.  And
> further east on the great lake, in motion, there were huge ice floes.
> Lady Gregory said she had never before seen "icebergs"!  Throughout
> her time in Duluth, she kept talking about the "icebergs," and the
> "beauty" of the "icebergs"!
>
> Regards, from the icebergs of Lake Superior,
>
> Séamas Cain
> http://alazanto.org/seamascain
> http://seamascain.writernetwork.com
> http://www.mnartists.org/Seamas_Cain
>
>
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