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Post by Deleted on Jan 14, 2018 2:09:21 GMT
(Pouting she said...) He still didn't deserve more accolades and all compared to Sam Shepard! Humph! (Huckle, where are you?)
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Post by bixaorellana on Jan 14, 2018 2:24:28 GMT
I believe the piece is meant to be a personal overview of all the writers who died in the past year, rather than a "best of" list. He says at the beginning of the article:
Poets, editors, songwriters, teachers, journalists, novelists—some great writers and some under-sung ones left us this year. Here, in chronological order of their deaths, is a selective compendium of literary obituaries from 2017.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 14, 2018 15:25:49 GMT
AH... the voice of reason prevails. Such a relief!
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Post by bixaorellana on Jan 23, 2018 18:35:28 GMT
Nicanor Parra, September 5, 1914 – January 23, 2018, was a Chilean poet, mathematician, and physicist. He was considered an influential poet in Chile and throughout Latin America. Some rank him among the most important poets of Spanish language literature. sourceI Take Back Everything I’ve SaidBefore I go I’m supposed to get a last wish: Generous reader burn this book It’s not at all what I wanted to say Though it was written in blood It’s not what I wanted to say. No lot could be sadder than mine I was defeated by my own shadow: My words took vengeance on me. Forgive me, reader, good reader If I cannot leave you With a warm embrace, I leave you With a forced and sad smile. Maybe that’s all I am But listen to my last word: I take back everything I’ve said. With the greatest bitterness in the world I take back everything I’ve said. Nicanor Parra — translated by Miller Williams More poems by Parra here: www.poemhunter.com/nicanor-parra/poems/
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Post by Kimby on Jan 24, 2018 1:04:18 GMT
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Post by Kimby on Jan 24, 2018 3:02:22 GMT
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Post by bixaorellana on Jan 24, 2018 5:52:55 GMT
One of the greats of speculative fiction.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jan 24, 2018 6:34:31 GMT
She was one of my favourites as a teenager.
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Post by Kimby on Jan 24, 2018 13:58:29 GMT
She was one of my favourites as a teenager. Why the British spelling, K2? Is that a French thing?
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Post by kerouac2 on Jan 24, 2018 14:50:28 GMT
I have chosen (to Bixa's despair ) to use the dominant spelling of standard English on the planet most of the time. There are still a few words concerning which I suffer a cultural conflict, but I try to avoid using them here (tyre, kerb...). The fact that I have to think about alternate spellings keeps my mind spry.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jan 24, 2018 16:32:06 GMT
That must be the UK spelling of "disgust".
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Post by bixaorellana on Jan 25, 2018 17:40:43 GMT
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Jan 26, 2018 21:49:07 GMT
I remember waiting to borrow Ursula Le Guin's books from the school library...there was always a waiting list!
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Post by kerouac2 on Jan 26, 2018 23:10:57 GMT
My newspaper devoted two full pages to her on Thursday.
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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 18, 2018 23:22:17 GMT
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Post by Kimby on May 15, 2018 15:18:26 GMT
Tom Wolfe, Pyrotechnic Nonfiction Writer and Novelist, Dies at 87 He wrote “The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test,’ ‘Bonfire of the Vanities’ and ‘The Right Stuff,’ and pioneered the New Journalism of the 1960s and ’70s. www.nytimes.com
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Post by kerouac2 on May 23, 2018 10:32:44 GMT
Philip Roth.
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Post by Kimby on May 23, 2018 12:25:09 GMT
Goodbye Columbus
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Post by Kimby on May 23, 2018 15:31:44 GMT
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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 12, 2018 3:16:38 GMT
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Post by lagatta on Aug 12, 2018 20:03:55 GMT
Oddly, I've never heard of him, though I have quite a few friends from the Cono Sur countries. Will look up the originals. As for spelling, I think a Europudding style based more on UK English is the standard in most writing there. Atwood's spelling would be more UK than US, but not completely: Canadian English uses tire for the rubbery noun and curb not kerb for hard shoulders of a street. I can do those three pretty well, but I'd have to be heavily sub-edited in South Asia.
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Post by bixaorellana on Sept 14, 2018 19:16:33 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Sept 14, 2018 21:13:15 GMT
How bittersweet after the recent demise of The Village Voice within the past couple of weeks or so.
I love that first pic of him featured. It speaks volumes about how carefree and laid back a character he was.
91, not a bad run.
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Post by Kimby on Sept 14, 2018 22:24:35 GMT
(Coincidentally, the plug was pulled on Missoula’s Independent weekly this week, too, without warning,2 days before another issue was to be distributed.)
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Post by kerouac2 on Sept 17, 2018 20:37:22 GMT
I'm afraid that more and more historical periodicals, even the ones that have moved to internet versions, are going to disappear. Those of us who are attached to the old publications are dinosaurs now.
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Post by bixaorellana on Dec 28, 2018 17:00:05 GMT
Amen, Huckle. Thanks for the news, which I had not seen.
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Post by Kimby on Jan 17, 2019 22:32:43 GMT
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Post by casimira on Jan 20, 2019 16:29:21 GMT
Thanks for posting this Kimby.
I was a huge admirer of her and her work.
She was quite poor and her walks through the woods also included foraging for food.
(She cites Rumi and Walt Whitman as her favorite poets. Both favorites of mine as well).
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Post by Kimby on Jan 20, 2019 20:31:09 GMT
I can’t believe I did not know of her or her body of work till now. She was amazing!
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Post by Kimby on Jan 23, 2019 14:37:50 GMT
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