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Good to know!

Any good?

Strong work. Post-colonial, a kind of archeologist of her own culture, cataloging words and events. At first I was a bit put off by the extensive footnotes and explanations. But I must admit that I also learned a lot about Filipino history.

No argument on the skill. But the skill alone was not redemtive to me. Need our art be a conduit for distubance in such an already at times disturbing world? I think only if it does so in an attempt to find some light. Skill alone does not make us better for the reading. Just my take.

Stay tuned...

He was a wonderful guy. So glad to hear his book helped you reconnect with your muse. I especially liked his writing exercises.

Yes, wonderful, many of them. Did you know Sandford Lyne? He first turned me on to Jacobsen, shortly before Sandy passed away. Special fondness for the work because of him.

What did you think? I stumbled on a couple old essays from undergrad days:

http://www.robertpeake.com/old/essays/ac...

http://www.robertpeake.com/old/essays/ac...

I was very young, and very certain back then. But clearly, I loved this book.

I have read and re-read it many times.

One of my all-time favorite novels.

Hi Kitty,

I don't know what to say, except that the poems did not move me as I thought they might when I put this book down in my semester study plan. I found it all a bit prosaic, a bit academic, a bit not-my-thing. So much is a matter of taste, though, and I don't claim to have a monopoly on it.

Cheers,
Robert

No doubt. Hass brought him to Berkeley to read back when I was an undergrad. He said the falling Anglo-Saxon rhythms felt somehow natural to his Irish ear. If Val ever has trouble sleeping, I have but to read a few lines from this book. Works without fail to lull her to sleep. Something about those descending lines.

Awesome, thanks. Never made it to Purgatorio. Never went beyond Paradise Lost, either.