Comments: CAMPBELL MCGRATH.

fine stuff indeed! i especially love the repetition of sounds at the beginning of "Hemingway":
I'm the original two-hearted brawler.
I gnaw the scrawny heads from prawns

Any who recognizes the dignity of the blue heron is okay by me.

Posted by hippugeek at November 24, 2002 05:15 PM

how about the dignity of sea cucumbers?

i grew up on key biscayne (also, florida) and have just published RISE, YE SEA SLUGS -- 1,000 holothurian haiku . . . includes the orig. japanese and an average of 2 transl per poem (480 pgs for only $25)

campbell mcgrath has some of the finest landscape description i have heard, but occidental poetry is still occidental poetry and -- how do you think i might finish? rdg

Posted by robin d. gill at November 2, 2003 08:36 AM

Pardon a note to my last, I wrongly assumed the personal info would be included with the posting. Please peek at http://www.paraverse.org/ for info on Rise, Ye Sea Slugs! as it is not yet googleable. There are sample pages. rdg

Posted by robin d. gill at November 2, 2003 08:45 AM

I see i did not pay careful enough attention to the focus of this site when i posted. Not so much poetry, but language itself, right? Let me just add, then, that Rise, Ye Sea Slugs! may interest you for being the first book to demonstrate (not just argue) the use of multiple translations as a method of translation between exotic tongues, in this case English and Japanese. Sufficient glossing is given to allow the reader with no knowledge of Japanese to judge for him or herself. 19 weis, 100 frogs, 100 poets, le ton beau de marot etc are fun, but this is for real. It may change the way we translate. (i know it is ridiculous to write about one's own work like this, but i published on Halloween and now it is almost the New Year and no reviews have appeared -- what else is one to do?)

The paraverse.org site is up and running and you will find a wee sample of what i am talking about.

Posted by robin d. gill at December 29, 2003 05:55 PM

Robin: Although the focus of this site is language, I interpret that quite broadly and include poetry within its ambit (as the most concentrated form of language), so don't worry about straying off topic. Also, the paraverse site is linked from your name, as you'll see if you mouse over it.

Posted by language hat at December 29, 2003 06:32 PM

Umm does anybody know of a Campbell Mcgrath poem that started

"I was at 7/11"

and ended

"I was aware of social injustice, but in the vaguest possible way"


If some one does, can you please maybe show the rest of the poem.

Thank You


Insert Witty quote here

Posted by THe caller at March 4, 2004 09:14 PM