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Date:         Thu, 21 Jan 1993 12:07:38 -0800
From:         Chris Zinn <czinn@REED.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Maya Angelou - Poet Laureate?
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It's true that Mona Van Duyn, not Maya Angelou, is the current "Poetry
Advisor to the Librarr of Congress."  For several years now, since, I
think, James Dickey held the post, that office has also been termed "poet
laureate."  But for a long time there was resistance to the idea of a poet
laureate in the U.S., and a scruple to keep the Library of Congress post
from appearing as such, presumably to avoid emulation with the "courtly
muses" etc.  Ms. Van Duyn's interesting poem was featured on NPR a few
nights ago, and her new book is well worth reading.
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Date:         Sat, 23 Jan 1993 12:12:33 -0400
From:         IAN YORK <YORK@SSCVAX.CIS.MCMASTER.CA>
Subject:      Humble confession of ignorance, and willingness to learn

        I admit it:  I have not heard of, or (knowingly) read anything by, Maya
Angelou, Cees Nooteboom, or Donna Tartt.  (The good news is that because of the
way my knucles drag when I walk, it wears the excess hair off.)  Could some-
body enlighten me as to what kind of stuff they write - when they wrote it -
what they have written - and what I should read?
        (Still banging the rocks together) -Ian
p.s. I'm quite clear, by the way, that Maya Angelou is NOTNOTNOTNOTNOT the US
poet laureate.  But thanks anyway.
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Date:         Wed, 27 Jan 1993 11:35:48 EST
From:         myname@STUDENT.ANU.EDU.AU
Subject: Re: comments?
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>
>I think that the fact that young children are introduced to literature
>is a good start - even if it is by The Yellow Rose of Texas or the
>Muppets.  Another example is the use of classical music in cartoons -
>specifically Bugs Bunny.  What child doesn't recognize the William Tell
>Overture now, even if he/she can't identify the title?  Isn't it more
>important to start young with hopes of capturing a child's interest than
>worrying about keeping what is appropriate instructional format?
>-allison
>AJT@UNC.OIT.UNC.EDU
>
>I agree wholeheartedly.  It also allows a new definition of 'cultured':

   a cultured person is someone who can hear the William Tell Overture
   and NOT think of the Lone Ranger!

supplied by a classical musician friend of mine

ROC
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From:         "wbell@micf.nist.gov (Wilma Bell)" <WBELL@NBSMICF.BITNET>
Subject:      RE: Maya Angelou - Poet Laureate?

I think history will record Maya's poem as well as her talent as notable. I
don't think it's a matter of whether she or Clinton can take the credit, but
rather that she was asked to capture the moment and that she did very well.
"High art" is really "in the eye of the beholder," and is constantly being
redefined.  I salute President Clinton for being brave enough to ask her and I
salute Maya as an outstanding talent and a beautiful human being.
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Date:         Mon, 25 Jan 1993 12:19:43 EDT
From:         David Linder <DWL@APMATHS.UWO.CA>
Organization: Applied Mathematics, UWO
Subject:      Deadly Sins
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That quote about adultery reminds me of a passage in Anthony
Powell's "The Kindly Ones" wherein the members of a dinner party
amuse themselves by staging seven "photographic stills" to
represent the cardinal sins: lust, pride (hubris), greed
(avarice), envy, anger (wrath), gluttony, and sloth.
Inspiration for the idea came from the sins as depicted on the
dining hall's tapestries.  I thought this a clever mechanism
for in a later volume in the series great nostalgia was evoked
through rediscovery of the proofs, allowing the narrator to thus
recall both his young adulthood and certain characteristcs of
his contemporaries.
Having done duty to the "literary" quota, I'm wondering if anyone
knows an artist who did drawings of the Sins and the Virtues, in
the style of Durer.  Perhaps it was he?
I also wonder: when I can't remember certain of the sins, does
that indicate familiarity with those successfully named, or
repression of those not?

David Linder                             Applied Mathematics
                                         U. of Western Ontario
                                         London, ON, Canada
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Date:         Thu, 21 Jan 1993 11:21:48 EDT
From:         Tom Frenkel <FRENKEL@CPMAIL-AM.CIS.COLUMBIA.EDU>
Subject:      Maya Angelou (follow-up)
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Sorry, forgot to ask:  Aside from Robert Frost at JFK's inauguration,
what other poets have read at past inaugural ceremonies?

    Tom Frenkel (frenkel@cpmail-am.cis.columbia.edu)
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Date:         Thu, 21 Jan 1993 12:32:25 -0500
From:         rlbs@ELWOOD.ESU.EDU
Subject:      Poet Laureate
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> I seem to recall reading recently that we no longer have a Poet Laureate
> as the last one resigned.  If that is true, I think that Maya Angelou would
> be an excellent choice.
>
> Mindy Fiala
> MFiala@vax1.umkc.edu

Maya Angelou was named (U.S.) Poet Laureate last year by George Bush.
Like the British Poets Laureate, the US position has been graced by
persons of uneven talent.  To be fair, it _is_ a lousy position; the
PL must produce works on demand for occasions not usually poetically (?)
inspiring.

Does anyone recall the name of the British Poet Laureate?  Last I heard,
it was a poet from the West Indies, a Derek ___(?)

Richard Bugyi-Sutter
E Stroudsburg Univ, PA, USA.
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Date:         Mon, 25 Jan 1993 08:01:52 -0800
From:         djl@MAILHOST.PP.PDX.EDU
Subject:      Quote of the Day
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... the whole of life is a mistake, and I intend to commit it as valiantly as
I can.   -- Edward Dahlberg
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Date:         Wed, 27 Jan 1993 18:34:56 PST
From:         Timothy Bowden <tcbowden@CLOVIS.FELTON.CA.US>
Organization: Yucca Flats II in Felton, CA
Subject: Re: comments?
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        IAN YORK <YORK@sscvax.cis.mcmaster.ca> writes:

>         The association of the William tell Overture with the Lone Ranger may
> not require familiarity with the show.

 Precisely.  A genetic implant on the culture, like `Steenking Badges'
 or _Incident At Owl Creek Bridge_ (who wrote that, anyway?), which we
 all know much more of than we ever wanted...

-Uncle timmie


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Date:         Thu, 21 Jan 1993 13:09:24 EST
From:         Graham Wolff Christian <GRAHAM@HARVARDA.BITNET>
Subject:      Re: Poet Laureate
              21 Jan 1993 12:32:25 -0500 from <rlbs@ELWOOD.ESU.EDU>

I believe that Mona Van Duyn, rather than Maya Angelou, is the current Poet
Laureate--I read a newspaper article that mentioned that Van Duyn was also
writing a poem for the inauguration, just for the hell of it. Since the US's
Laureateship is a 1-yr position, however, Angelou would be a natural next
choice.
Britain's Poet Laureate is not Derek Walcott, who spends most of his time away
from the Caribbean here in Boston; it is Ted Hughes, widower of Sylvia Plath,
and I must say that he's borne the stress of ungrateful commissions better than
most.
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Date:         Thu, 21 Jan 1993 19:07:07 EST
From:         Royal <royald@MACE.CC.PURDUE.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Maya Angelou - Poet Laureate?
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              at Jan 21, 93 1:51 pm

livewell@SIAM.ORG writes:
>
>           Dear Tom,
>
>           Robert Penn Warren was the first laureate.  (Why isn't there
>           a stamp for him?)  Richard Wilbur was the second, followed
>           by Mark Strand, then Joseph Brodsky.  I'm unsure, however,
>           of the latest.  The original position was called Consultant
>           to the Library of Congress.  Such people as Archibald
>           MacCleish (spelling?), Frost, Tate, and Stevens held this
>           position.

Archibald MacLeish


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        royald@mace.cc.purdue.edu     ><        legal office of
        English Department            ><        Hungadunga, Hungadunga,
        Purdue University             ><        Hungadunga, Hungadunga,
        West Lafayette, IN            ><        & McCormick.
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Date:         Thu, 21 Jan 1993 09:07:22 -0800
From:         djl@MAILHOST.PP.PDX.EDU
Subject:      Quote of the Day
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There is a Lancashire saying about physical love that beats all the poets:
"If God made owt better, he made it for hisself."   -- Anthony Burgess
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Date:         Mon, 25 Jan 1993 17:33:26 EDT
From:         Tom Frenkel <FRENKEL@CPMAIL-AM.CIS.COLUMBIA.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Maya Angelou's Inauguration Poem
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> Date:          Mon, 25 Jan 1993 16:18:02 -0500
> From:          STU_CDHERBER@JMUVAX.BITNET

> Does anyone know where I could obtain a copy of "On the Pulse of Morning?"
> I was disappointed by the failure of my local newspaper editors to include
> the text in the morning edition.
>
> Thanks,  Deming

Yes ... it just so happens I typed it into a file, for an article I
am working on.  I'll send a copy to you.  If anyone else wants the
poem, please let me know.  If there is enough interest, I'll post it
to the list (but want to assess interest first, since it is rather
long).

    Tom Frenkel (frenkel@cpmail-am.cis.columbia.edu)
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Date:         Wed, 27 Jan 1993 13:27:31 CST
From:         steve harris <SPAM@TAMVM1.BITNET>
Subject:      Re: secret history, et alia

Things Naomi should read in conjunction with Satanic Verses--at the risk of
   overloading:

     -The Quran
     -Orientalism by Edward Said
     -An intro to Islam by Bashir Ahmad (I forget the title)
     -or another by Alfred Guillaume [?]
     -as much of 1001 Arabian Nights as possible
     -The Tin Drum by Gunther Grass

Steve Harris
spam@tamvm1
(I guess I could send this directly, but I don't feel like typing it over now.)
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Date:         Thu, 28 Jan 1993 09:41:13 EST
From:         "Robert F. O'Connor" <ocoreng@FAC.ANU.EDU.AU>
Subject: Re: comments?
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alright, alright - how about hearing Sousa's 'The Liberty Bell' and not
thinking of Monty Python?

ROC
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Date:         Thu, 21 Jan 1993 17:31:09 CST
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Comments:     Originally-From: frank stevenson <BAE03@TWNTKU10>
From:         frank stevenson <BAE03@TWNTKU10.BITNET>
Subject:      2 more pomes

having vainly hoarded them for yrs...hoping against hope they'll be discovered
centuries later (like emily's) in worm-eaten desk drawers, disheveled coatpocke
ts...-----------------------Original message----------------------------
                  in chuang-tzu's garden


            we sat for tea
            in his lacquer garden one day
            chuang-tzu and i

            he caught a fish in his hand
            out of the sky
            and gave me, leaning close saying:

            "throw away the hand when
             you've got the fish,
             throw away word when you've got meaning."

             he threw up his hand & it was a bone
             in a bird cage: "what do you wish?"
             i asked for more tea and he asked back:

             "how to get
              into cage without setting birds singing?"
             i sipped in wonderment, holding my breath

              (or ming*-ing?)
             wondering: or was it how to get out
             of the cage (of life, of death)

              (or ming*-ing?)
              (and then i was alone)
             without stopping them?

       *original version has chinese characters: 1st ming (falling tone)
        means "destiny" & 2nd ming (rising tone) means "enlightenment"....



                       parmenides in himalayas


              which of 2 ways? (sits on rock, head in hands)
              the 1, that thinkest must-be:
                  logical analysis of meaning-particles
                  split hair follicles of bound propositions
                  as in "to know i believe i know
                  that i'm in albuquerque (now)"

              the other, that only thinkest can(not) be
                  (gosainkunda, the high hindu
                   holy lake
                   at 14,000 feet)        yet "is"
                   or gelassenheit, releasement
                   or suchness or the flowing hair of wind
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Date:         Wed, 27 Jan 1993 16:41:36 -0600
From:         Marshall Gilliland <marshall@JESTER.USASK.CA>
Subject:      poems in anthologies
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There was this recently:

<In article <C1DCJo.C2E@ccu.umanitoba.ca> feld@ccu.umanitoba.ca
(Michael Feld) writes:

>"400 poetry anthologies were fed into a computer and voila -- the 500
>most anthologized English poems rose to the top.  A revealing snapshot
>of one aspect of Wesern civ, even including a list of the poems in
>order of popularity. (... is Number 1.)"

>Can you guess?  I couldn't; but the winner is neither trivial nor
>inappropriate.

Will some kind person please post the top five or ten or however many
titles your fingers will type?  I'm guessing the #1 poem is either a
Shakespeare sonnet ("Let me not..." or "Western Wind."  Help....
Thanks.

Marshall Gilliland      English, U of Saskatchewan
marshall@jester.usask.ca
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Keywords: verse, worse, dreck, whatheck...
Summary: shameless list sucking
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Date:         Fri, 22 Jan 1993 18:16:00 PST
From:         Timothy Bowden <tcbowden@CLOVIS.FELTON.CA.US>
Organization: Yucca Flats II in Felton, CA
Subject: Re: 2 more pomes
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        naomi seeger <ECZ5SEE@uclamvs.bitnet> writes:

> uncle timmie...o uncle tiiiimmie...someone just saluted the poetry flag.

Oh, yes, pardon me.  Ahem.

Have you lugged your poem today to

  poet-request@scruz.ucsc.edu

?

It will enroll you in a list made up of thousands of Poets Laurette from
high schools everywhere.  (I just made that up, in fact.)  Maya Angelou
has an honorary membership.

One, possibly two, of our members write better than anything you have
seen in New Yawkah.  But, in case that intimidates you, most of the
stuff is lousier than what you wrote to your main squeeze in middle
school.


Poetry

 The narrowest margins
 and the widest parameters
 The broadest scope
 The least hope
 Nope


Guess which that one was.  For the prime grade, you have to join the
list.


-Uncle Timmie



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Date:         Fri, 22 Jan 1993 13:14:04 U
From:         Jim Dwyer <jim_dwyer@MACGATE.CSUCHICO.EDU>
Subject:      RE: Maya Angelou - Poet Laureate?
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If Maya Angelou is from Stamps, Arkansas, the question of the Maya Angelou
Stamps can be laid to rest. Silly me, I thought Mayas hailed from Central
America. Was having a poet at the inauguration an example of Maya from Heaven
or will Clinton take the credit?
On a more serious note, she did well considering that commissioned political
poetry is not always high art, e.g. the otherwise great Archibald McLeish's
"Great American Fourth of July Parade"
Jim Dwyer
Chico State University
Chico
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From: Discussions about Literature on Fri, Jan 22, 1993 1:00 PM
Subject: Re: Maya Angelou - Poet Laureate?

Angelou was born is Stamps, Arkansas so that makes her an Arkansan.
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Date:         Wed, 27 Jan 1993 16:27:04 -0400
From:         IAN YORK <YORK@SSCVAX.CIS.MCMASTER.CA>
Subject: Re: comments?

        The association of the William tell Overture with the Lone Ranger may
not require familiarity with the show.  I have never seen or heard the show,
but clearly remember making biddy-bump biddy-bump noises as I galloped on my
(imaginary) horses (perhaps I should point out that this was some time ago,
and I rarely do either now.)  In other words, I think the WTO/LR association
has entered into oral culture (or the collective unconciousness, or whatever:
there's probably a better phrase.)
        Ian
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Date:         Wed, 27 Jan 1993 12:02:13 EST
From:         Graham Wolff Christian <GRAHAM@HARVARDA.BITNET>
Subject:      Re: Word Search
              27 Jan 1993 11:27:00 EST from <ocoreng@DURRAS.ANU.EDU.AU>

It was in part precisely that passage of *Mikado* I had in mind, but I am still
convinced that there is a word which references the notions in the cited lines
even more particularly than "idiot."
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Date:         Tue, 26 Jan 1993 11:36:00 PST
From:         naomi seeger <ECZ5SEE@UCLAMVS.BITNET>
Subject:      re: text....

thank you so much.

reading again, it brought to mind robert graves' statement about "real"
poetry being useful during shaving - because it makes your hair stand on
end.

wow.  thanks.

naomi seeger
(funny how extrordinarily beautiful words can render one speechless...)
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Date:         Thu, 21 Jan 1993 11:18:27 EDT
From:         Tom Frenkel <FRENKEL@CPMAIL-AM.CIS.COLUMBIA.EDU>
Subject:      Maya Angelou - Poet Laureate?
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Hi ... I just was reading the poem, "On the Pulse of Morning", by
Maya Angelou, which she read at the Inauguration yesterday.  Does
someone know if she's the Poet Laureate?  And if not, who is?  And
how far back does the Poet Laureate-ship go back in this country?
Who have been our Poet Laureates in the past?

Thanks!

    Tom Frenkel (frenkel@cpmail-am.cis.columbia.edu)
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Date:         Fri, 22 Jan 1993 13:57:44 -0500
From:         MCW001@ACAD.DRAKE.EDU
Subject:      Re: Maya Angelou - Poet Laureate?
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        No, Angelou is not the Poet Laureate, she-as a fellow Tennesee
naitive-was asked by Bubba #1 to write and recite the Inaugural poem
in the same manner of Robert Frost back in '61...
        The Poet Laureate is selected by the Librarian of Congress...
The first was Robert Penn Warren in '86, the current PL is
Mona Van Duyn, selected in '92 and the first woman to fill
that job...
                                Marc C. Wilson
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Date:         Wed, 27 Jan 1993 08:56:59 -0800
From:         David Loftus <djl@MAILHOST.PP.PDX.EDU>
Subject:      Quote of the Day
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It doesn't kill brain cells, but it can be addictive.  There have been times
when I only have a little money and instead of getting food, I'll get on the
Net.  The Net changed my life.  It gave me something interesting to do other
than drugs.     -- Michael Totten, 26, of San Francisco
                   from a Chronicle wire story about SF net, a local
                   computer net linking 19 Bay Area coffeehouses (as well
                   as private homes with modems) in which patrons drop two
                   quarters for four minutes of on-line time
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From:         ocoreng@DURRAS.ANU.EDU.AU
Subject:      Re: Word Search
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Strangely enough, I think the word you are looking for may be 'idiot'.  I
refer you to the Executioner's song in 'The Mikado' - he includes on his
"little list"

   The idiot who praises with enthusiastic tone
   Every century but this, every country but his own...

I think that says it all really


ROC
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