Re: motionless

John O's right about Billy Collins. I remember reading a couple of his
poems here and there and being impressed, but what I see on the site
inspires another...eh, so what?

Here's a link to one of his poems: http://www.bigsnap.com/p-qa-01.html

Here's a link to the website: http://www.bigsnap.com/linklibrary.html

Here's a link to the whole war protest thing:
http://www.ohio.com/mld/ohio/entertainment/5112907.htm

This link's about the US poet laureate position in general, with a list
of previous winners: http://www.loc.gov/poetry/laureate.html

Jim

Scottie Bowman wrote:

> Does America have the equivalent of our poet laureate?
> One thinks of Robert Frost & Kennedy - but perhaps
> that was an informal arrangement.
>
> In Britain, the title seems pretty well synonymous with poet
> loserate. Such as were any good originally, like Tennyson
> or Ted Hughes, had certainly suffered brain emporridgement
> by the time they accepted the honour. Most of them have
> been, like Motion, ambulant banality from the word go.
> Motion is your stereotypical 'man of letters' (of which
> the Yanks surely possess an embarras de richesse):
> a radio play here, a pome there, a biography of some fashionable
> subject - all of them perfectly magic-free. Philip Larkin had
> grave subsequent regrets at having allowed Motion do HIS
> life story. 'Posh voice, means well,' was the crushing verdict.
>
> Could anything stiffen one's sinews more effectively on
> the Baghdad road than reading Motion's vision or -
> better still - one of Pinter's vomits?
>
> PS Incidentally, another gifted combatant contemporary
> of Owen & Sassoon was Julian Grenfell. Trouble is, like
> surprisingly numerous others, in regarding the whole 1914-18
> experience as the greatest & most enjoyable lark of his life,
> he doesn't quite fit the acceptable pacifist template.
>
> Scottie B.
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