[New-Poetry] Re: musicians with poem books
David Baratier
editor at pavementsaw.org
Fri May 1 13:44:36 EDT 2009
sorry this is so late, 3rd time sending!
One of our authors was in the Silver Jews: Chris Stroffolino
Lee Ranaldo and Thurston Moore of Sonic Y
Damon K from Galaxie 500
Be well
David Baratier, Editor
Pavement Saw Press
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> 1. Paolo Ruffilli and Ezra (Anny
> Ballardini)
> 2. Bidart awarded LA Times Book Prize (jforjames at aol.com)
> 3. Graywolf editor's notes (jforjames at aol.com)
> 4. Re: Paolo Ruffilli and Ezra
> (TheOldMole)
> 5. Re: Paolo Ruffilli and Ezra (Michael
> Snider)
> 6. Re: Paolo Ruffilli and Ezra (Anny
> Ballardini)
> 7. Re: Paolo Ruffilli and Ezra (Bob
> Grumman)
> 8. Re: Paolo Ruffilli and Ezra (Anny
> Ballardini)
> 9. UPDATE - Scary News about Poet Craig
> Arnold; please pass on.
> (amy king)
> 10. Re: Paolo Ruffilli and Ezra (jforjames at aol.com)
> 11. Carol Ann Duffy gets the laurels (jforjames at aol.com)
> 12. Broadsided (jforjames at aol.com)
> 13. Carol Ann Duffy (Anny Ballardini)
> 14. Re: Carol Ann Duffy gets the laurels (Anny
> Ballardini)
> 15. Re: Paolo Ruffilli and Ezra (Anny Ballardini)
> 16. Re: Carol Ann Duffy gets the laurels (jforjames at aol.com)
>
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> Message: 1
> Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2009 21:10:25 +0200
> From: Anny Ballardini <anny.ballardini at gmail.com>
> Subject: [New-Poetry] Paolo Ruffilli and Ezra
> To: "NewPoetry: Contemporary Poetry News & Views"
> <new-poetry at wiz.cath.vt.edu>
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> And Peter Thompson has made my day! I am the featured
> translator on *Ezra:
> an online journal of translations*
> http://ezratranslation.com/Spring_2009.html
>
> Thank you to Peter Thompson for his hospitality and to
> Paolo Ruffilli for
> most interesting poetry.
>
> Best wishes, Anny
>
> --
> Anny Ballardini
> http://annyballardini.blogspot.com/
> http://www.fieralingue.it/modules.php?name=poetshome
> http://www.lulu.com/content/5806078
> http://www.moriapoetry.com/ebooks.html
> I Tell You: One must still have chaos in one to give birth
> to a dancing
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> Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2009 15:20:19 -0400
> From: jforjames at aol.com
> Subject: [New-Poetry] Bidart awarded LA Times Book Prize
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> http://www.latimes.com/extras/bookprizes/
>
> Poetry
> Frank Bidart, Watching the Spring Festival: Poems
> (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
> http://www.fsgpoetry.com/fsg/2009/04/frank-bidart-wins-los-angeles-times-book-prize-for-poetry-.html
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> Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2009 15:26:47 -0400
> From: jforjames at aol.com
> Subject: [New-Poetry] Graywolf editor's notes
> To: new-poetry at wiz.cath.vt.edu
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> Also from the FSG blog, some posts by Graywolf editor Fiona
> McCrae:
>
> http://www.fsgpoetry.com/
>
> "Every quarter the staff likes to get a report on the
> permissions activity for the period. It’s fascinating
> to look at the poems and poets that are most in demand: Tony
> Hoagland, Dana Gioia, Natasha Tretheway, Linda Gregg, Eamon
> Grennan, Claudia Rankine, Nick Flynn, Katie Ford. If I had
> to come up with one quality that unites the most requested
> poems, it’s clarity. When we are selecting our poets,
> clarity is not a quality that we have in the front of our
> minds. Instead, I think we are looking at originality,
> complexity, innovation. Perhaps some of our more opaque
> poets need to read in the context of their other poems: the
> collection as a whole teaches the reader how to fully
> understand the work. Or perhaps they need more time to
> filter into the wider cultural currents."
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> Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2009 16:06:50 -0400
> From: TheOldMole <Opus40-01 at opus40.org>
> Subject: Re: [New-Poetry] Paolo Ruffilli and Ezra
> To: "NewPoetry: Contemporary Poetry News
> & Views"
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> Very cool.
>
> Anny Ballardini wrote:
> > And Peter Thompson has made my day! I am the featured
> translator on
> > /Ezra: an online journal of translations/
> > http://ezratranslation.com/Spring_2009.html
> >
> > Thank you to Peter Thompson for his hospitality and to
> Paolo Ruffilli
> > for most interesting poetry..
> >
> > Best wishes, Anny
> >
> > --
> > Anny Ballardini
> > http://annyballardini.blogspot.com/
> > http://www.fieralingue.it/modules.php?name=poetshome
> > http://www.lulu.com/content/5806078
> > http://www.moriapoetry.com/ebooks.html
> > I Tell You: One must still have chaos in one to give
> birth to a
> > dancing star!
> >
> >
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
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> http://www.examiner.com/x-2862-NY-Writing-Careers-Examiner
>
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> Message: 5
> Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2009 16:27:14 -0400
> From: Michael Snider <mandolin at mikesnider.org>
> Subject: Re: [New-Poetry] Paolo Ruffilli and Ezra
> To: "NewPoetry: Contemporary Poetry News
> &, Views"
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> Quite a writeup they gave you Anny - you deserve it!
>
> On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 4:06 PM, TheOldMole <Opus40-01 at opus40.org>
> wrote:
>
> > Very cool.
> >
> > Anny Ballardini wrote:
> >
> >> And Peter Thompson has made my day! I am the
> featured translator on /Ezra:
> >> an online journal of translations/
> >> http://ezratranslation.com/Spring_2009.html
> >>
> >> Thank you to Peter Thompson for his hospitality
> and to Paolo Ruffilli for
> >> most interesting poetry.
> >>
> >> Best wishes, Anny
> >>
> >> --
> >> Anny Ballardini
> >> http://annyballardini.blogspot.com/
> >> http://www..fieralingue.it/modules.php?name=poetshome
> >> http://www.lulu.com/content/5806078
> >> http://www.moriapoetry.com/ebooks.html
> >> I Tell You: One must still have chaos in one to
> give birth to a dancing
> >> star!
> >>
> >>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >>
> >> _______________________________________________
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> > Tad Richards
> > Read my NY Writing Careers Examiner column today!
> > http://www.examiner.com/x-2862-NY-Writing-Careers-Examiner
> >
> > http://www.opus40.org/tadrichards/
> > http://opusforty.blogspot.com/
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> Message: 6
> Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2009 22:37:07 +0200
> From: Anny Ballardini <anny.ballardini at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [New-Poetry] Paolo Ruffilli and Ezra
> To: "NewPoetry: Contemporary Poetry News
> &, Views"
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> Thank you! Yes, that is quite a writeup!
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 10:27 PM, Michael Snider <mandolin at mikesnider.org>wrote:
>
> > Quite a writeup they gave you Anny - you deserve it!
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 4:06 PM, TheOldMole <Opus40-01 at opus40.org>
> wrote:
> >
> >> Very cool.
> >>
> >> Anny Ballardini wrote:
> >>
> >>> And Peter Thompson has made my day! I am the
> featured translator on
> >>> /Ezra: an online journal of translations/
> >>> http://ezratranslation.com/Spring_2009.html
> >>>
> >>> Thank you to Peter Thompson for his
> hospitality and to Paolo Ruffilli for
> >>> most interesting poetry.
> >>>
> >>> Best wishes, Anny
> >>>
> >>> --
> >>> Anny Ballardini
> >>> http://annyballardini.blogspot.com/
> >>> http://www.fieralingue.it/modules.php?name=poetshome
> >>> http://www.lulu.com/content/5806078
> >>> http://www.moriapoetry.com/ebooks.html
> >>> I Tell You: One must still have chaos in one
> to give birth to a dancing
> >>> star!
> >>>
> >>>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >>>
> >>>
> _______________________________________________
> >>> New-Poetry mailing list
> >>> New-Poetry at wiz.cath.vt.edu
> >>> http://wiz.cath.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/new-poetry
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> >>
> >> --
> >> Tad Richards
> >> Read my NY Writing Careers Examiner column today!
> >> http://www.examiner.com/x-2862-NY-Writing-Careers-Examiner
> >>
> >> http://www.opus40.org/tadrichards/
> >> http://opusforty.blogspot.com/
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>
> --
> Anny Ballardini
> http://annyballardini.blogspot.com/
> http://www.fieralingue.it/modules.php?name=poetshome
> http://www.lulu.com/content/5806078
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> Message: 7
> Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2009 16:42:31 -0500
> From: Bob Grumman <bobgrumman at nut-n-but.net>
> Subject: Re: [New-Poetry] Paolo Ruffilli and Ezra
> To: "NewPoetry: Contemporary Poetry News
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> New-Poetry's Number One!
>
> --Bob
>
>
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> Message: 8
> Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2009 22:56:52 +0200
> From: Anny Ballardini <anny.ballardini at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [New-Poetry] Paolo Ruffilli and Ezra
> To: "NewPoetry: Contemporary Poetry News
> &, Views"
> <new-poetry at wiz.cath.vt.edu>
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> nah,
> Number 1: Bob Grumman
>
> Number 1+1+1 : James Finnegan
>
> Number 1+the World: Amy King
>
> Number 1=1: Tad Richards
>
> Number 1-1+1=1: David Graham
>
> Number 1+music: Michael Snider
>
> Number 1rhyming1scanning1: R. S. (Sam) Gwynn
>
> Number 1+Comps: Jeff Newberry
>
> Number 1+Comps+Jeff Newberry: Al Maginnes
>
> Number 1+...
>
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 11:42 PM, Bob Grumman <bobgrumman at nut-n-but.net>wrote:
>
> > New-Poetry's Number One!
> >
> > --Bob
> >
> >
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>
>
> --
> Anny Ballardini
> http://annyballardini.blogspot.com/
> http://www.fieralingue.it/modules.php?name=poetshome
> http://www.lulu.com/content/5806078
> http://www.moriapoetry.com/ebooks.html
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> Message: 9
> Date: Fri, 1 May 2009 02:11:47 -0700 (PDT)
> From: amy king <amyhappens at yahoo.com>
> Subject: [New-Poetry] UPDATE - Scary News about Poet Craig
> Arnold;
> please pass on.
> To: new-poetry at wiz.cath.vt.edu,
> POETICS at LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU
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> >From the Facebook Group "Find Craig Arnold" --
>
>
>
>
>
> 4/30 11:08 EST: The coordinated efforts of the United
> States and
> Japanese government have resulted in a widened and extended
> search for
> poet Craig Arnold. We, Craig's family, are enormously
> grateful for
> these continued efforts.
>
>
>
>
>
> TO ALL THOSE WHO ARE HELPING US KEEP
> FAITH WITH CRAIG ARNOLD: RIGHT NOW THERE IS A GREAT DEAL OF
> INFORMATION
> BEING DISTRIBUTED ON THE INTERNET. THIS FACEBOOK GROUP IS
> THE ONLY SITE
> ASSOCIATED WITH CRAIG'S FAMILY. WE ARE BEING FULLY
> SUPPORTED BY THE
> U.S. AND JAPANESE GOVERNMENT, AND IT IS VERY IMPORTANT TO
> US THAT THE
> AUTHORITIES ARE ABLE TO FOCUS ON CRAIG'S SEARCH. WE WILL
> CONTINUE TO
> POST ACCURATE AND UP-TO-DATE INFORMATION ABOUT CRAIG, HIS
> WHEREABOUTS,
> AND THE EFFORTS BEING MADE TO FIND HIM. IN THE MEANTIME,
> PLEASE KEEP
> BOTH CRAIG AND THE SEARCHERS WHO ARE MAKING GREAT EFFORT TO
> FIND HIM IN
> YOUR THOUGHTS AND PRAYERS.
>
>
>
> 4/30 9:20 PM EST: Link to the NPR audio: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=103675357
>
>
>
> http://www.facebook.com/topic.php?topic=7848&post=29155&uid=74254019683#/group.php?gid=74254019683
>
>
>
> _______
>
>
>
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>
> Amy's Alias
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> Message: 10
> Date: Fri, 01 May 2009 11:40:01 -0400
> From: jforjames at aol.com
> Subject: Re: [New-Poetry] Paolo Ruffilli and Ezra
> To: new-poetry at wiz.cath.vt.edu
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> I'm always impressed by those who translate. Congrats,
> Anny.
>
> I?see a Leopold Senghor poem is translated below your
> group.
> I just picked up a Collected Poems of Senghor's in a used
> bookstore
> in Waterville ME where I spent more than I intended last
> Saturday.
> I'll have to see if I can find that?same Senghor?poem in my
> book and
> compare it to the version put up on Ezra.
>
> I can't call it translating but a process I've gone thru in
> the past is
> to take 3 previously translated versions (or?more versions,
> if available),
> along with the poem in its original language, and then
> using three?versions
> and the orginal, I put together (or build)?a fourth version
> selecting bits and
> pieces of the three, while consulting the original for
> guidance on?structure,
> sound and sense (as much I can make out, that is), and
> often putting
> in my own words and phrases along the way,?those elements I
> believe,
> based on my judgment and scant evidence I've gleaned from
> the original,
> that?will make this new or?'amalgamated translation' the
> better?poem.
>
> This older poem is not about translating per se, but it's
> related:
>
> In Another Language
>
>
>
> The poem I'll read for you
> is in a language not our own,
> you will hear and be lost
> in an alien land not unlike love itself
> where those we ask for directions
> can only shrug and point to town..
> There is nothing to know or follow,
> though when I mouth these words
> you may be moved no less for lack of meaning,
> something about a river, the shadow
> of a sparrow upon the wind, or fish
> just under the surface. Don't try
> to understand any more than you would ponder
> a bowl of soup, for it doesn't matter
> if these are words of a recipe or a psalm.
> The tongues cut from an old pair of shoes,
> a shell's ear buried in sand,
> all the more beautiful for what's left unsaid
> or that we are unable to say aloud
> in the vocabulary of lips, grammar
> of our arms. A child singing beneath a willow
> like rain or words under wings of geese
> rising off the lake, hear this
> as you would hear water running over stones,
> with as few words as you can make out,
> like hand, like two, like sleep.
> -
>
> Finnegan
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Anny Ballardini <anny.ballardini at gmail.com>
> Sent: Thu, 30 Apr 2009 4:37 pm
> Subject: Re: [New-Poetry] Paolo Ruffilli and Ezra
>
>
>
> Thank you! Yes, that is quite a writeup!
>
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 10:27 PM, Michael Snider <mandolin at mikesnider.org>
> wrote:
>
> Quite a writeup they gave you Anny - you deserve it!
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 4:06 PM, TheOldMole <Opus40-01 at opus40.org>
> wrote:
>
> Very cool.
>
> Anny Ballardini wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
> And Peter Thompson has made my day! I am the featured
> translator on /Ezra: an online journal of translations/
> http://ezratranslation.com/Spring_2009.html
>
> Thank you to Peter Thompson for his hospitality and to
> Paolo Ruffilli for most interesting poetry.
>
> Best wishes, Anny
>
> --
> Anny Ballardini
> http://annyballardini.blogspot.com/
> http://www.fieralingue.it/modules.php?name=poetshome
> http://www.lulu.com/content/5806078
> http://www.moriapoetry.com/ebooks.html
> I Tell You: One must still have chaos in one to give birth
> to a dancing star!
>
>
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
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> --
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> Read my NY Writing Careers Examiner column today!
> http://www.examiner.com/x-2862-NY-Writing-Careers-Examiner
>
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> http://www.fieralingue.it/modules.php?name=poetshome
> http://www.lulu.com/content/5806078
> http://www.moriapoetry.com/ebooks.html
> I Tell You: One must still have chaos in one to give birth
> to a dancing star!
>
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> Message: 11
> Date: Fri, 01 May 2009 12:02:33 -0400
> From: jforjames at aol.com
> Subject: [New-Poetry] Carol Ann Duffy gets the laurels
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> http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/02/world/europe/02poet.html?ref=books
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> Carol Ann Duffy was named poet laureate of Britain on
> Friday, the first time in its 341-year history that the post
> — held by such poets as Dryden, Tennyson, Wordsworth
> and Ted Hughes — has gone to a woman. (from
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> From: Anny Ballardini <anny.ballardini at gmail.com>
> Subject: [New-Poetry] Carol Ann Duffy
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> Carol Ann Duffy has been named as the new Poet Laureate,
> the first woman to
> be appointed in the 341-year history of the post.
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> From: Anny Ballardini <anny.ballardini at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [New-Poetry] Carol Ann Duffy gets the laurels
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> I should have looked at the list before sending in mine...
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> On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 6:02 PM, <jforjames at aol.com>
> wrote:
>
> > http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/02/world/europe/02poet.html?ref=books
> >
> > Carol Ann Duffy was named poet laureate of
> Britain<http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/international/countriesandterritories/unitedkingdom/index.html?inline=nyt-geo>on
> Friday, the first time in its 341-year history that the post
> — held by
> > such poets as Dryden, Tennyson, Wordsworth and Ted
> Hughes<http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/h/ted_hughes/index.html?inline=nyt-per>—
> has gone to a woman. (from article)
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> Date: Fri, 1 May 2009 18:58:39 +0200
> From: Anny Ballardini <anny.ballardini at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [New-Poetry] Paolo Ruffilli and Ezra
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> It's a good poem. It reminded me of when I was a child and
> I had to make the
> meaning of the words out. And to learn and understand when
> *they* were angry
> or happy, that had more to do with facial expressions and
> gestures.
>
> On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 5:40 PM, <jforjames at aol.com>
> wrote:
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> > I'm always impressed by those who translate. Congrats,
> Anny.
> >
> > I see a Leopold Senghor poem is translated below your
> group.
> > I just picked up a Collected Poems of Senghor's in a
> used bookstore
> > in Waterville ME where I spent more than I intended
> last Saturday.
> > I'll have to see if I can find that same Senghor poem
> in my book and
> > compare it to the version put up on Ezra.
> >
> > I can't call it translating but a process I've gone
> thru in the past is
> > to take 3 previously translated versions (or more
> versions, if available),
> > along with the poem in its original language, and then
> using three versions
> >
> > and the orginal, I put together (or build) a fourth
> version selecting bits
> > and
> > pieces of the three, while consulting the original for
> guidance
> > on structure,
> > sound and sense (as much I can make out, that is), and
> often putting
> > in my own words and phrases along the way, those
> elements I believe,
> > based on my judgment and scant evidence I've gleaned
> from the original,
> > that will make this new or 'amalgamated translation'
> the better poem.
> >
> > This older poem is not about translating per se, but
> it's related:
> >
> > In Another Language
> >
> >
> > The poem I'll read for you
> > is in a language not our own,
> > you will hear and be lost
> > in an alien land not unlike love itself
> > where those we ask for directions
> > can only shrug and point to town.
> > There is nothing to know or follow,
> > though when I mouth these words
> > you may be moved no less for lack of meaning,
> > something about a river, the shadow
> > of a sparrow upon the wind, or fish
> > just under the surface. Don't try
> > to understand any more than you would ponder
> > a bowl of soup, for it doesn't matter
> > if these are words of a recipe or a psalm.
> > The tongues cut from an old pair of shoes,
> > a shell's ear buried in sand,
> > all the more beautiful for what's left unsaid
> > or that we are unable to say aloud
> > in the vocabulary of lips, grammar
> > of our arms. A child singing beneath a willow
> > like rain or words under wings of geese
> > rising off the lake, hear this
> > as you would hear water running over stones,
> > with as few words as you can make out,
> > like *hand*, like *two*, like *sleep*.
> > -
> >
> > Finnegan
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Anny Ballardini <anny.ballardini at gmail.com>
> > Sent: Thu, 30 Apr 2009 4:37 pm
> > Subject: Re: [New-Poetry] Paolo Ruffilli and Ezra
> >
> > Thank you! Yes, that is quite a writeup!
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 10:27 PM, Michael Snider
> <mandolin at mikesnider.org>wrote:
> >
> >> Quite a writeup they gave you Anny - you deserve
> it!
> >>
> >>
> >> On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 4:06 PM, TheOldMole <Opus40-01 at opus40.org>
> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Very cool.
> >>>
> >>> Anny Ballardini wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> And Peter Thompson has made my day!
> I am the featured translator on
> >>>> /Ezra: an online journal of translations/
> >>>> http://ezratranslation.com/Spring_2009.html
> >>>>
> >>>> Thank you to Peter Thompson for his
> hospitality and to Paolo Ruffilli
> >>>> for most interesting poetry.
> >>>>
> >>>> Best wishes, Anny
> >>>>
> >>>> --
> >>>> Anny Ballardini
> >>>> http://annyballardini.blogspot.com/
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> >>>> http://www.lulu.com/content/5806078
> >>>> http://www.moriapoetry.com/ebooks.html
> >>>> I Tell You: One must still have chaos in
> one to give birth to a dancing
> >>>> star!
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
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> From: jforjames at aol.com
> Subject: Re: [New-Poetry] Carol Ann Duffy gets the laurels
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> What do people think about this snip from the NYT article:
>
>
> Ms. Duffy, 53, is known for writing accessible, often witty
> poems on a wide range of topics, many of them to do with the
> minutiae of everyday life. She succeeds Andrew Motion, who
> has just completed his 10-year term.
>
>
>
> The culture secretary, Andy Burnham, called Ms. Duffy
> “a towering figure in English literature today and a
> superb poet.�
> -
> I know it's typical bureaucratic hyperbole, but do you
> think it's possible to be a 'towering figure' in any
> nation's literature by writing "witty poems...many to do
> with the minutiae of everyday life"?
> Finnegan
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Anny Ballardini <anny.ballardini at gmail.com>
> Sent: Fri, 1 May 2009 12:45 pm
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> I should have looked at the list before sending in mine...
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>
> On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 6:02 PM, <jforjames at aol.com>
> wrote:
>
> http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/02/world/europe/02poet.html?ref=books
>
> Carol Ann Duffy was named poet laureate of Britain on
> Friday, the first time in its 341-year history that the post
> — held by such poets as Dryden, Tennyson, Wordsworth
> and Ted Hughes — has gone to a woman. (from
> article)Â
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