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Nikolay Nikiforov <[log in to unmask]>
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Nikolay Nikiforov <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 29 Jan 2003 09:44:13 -0500
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cm>     "There's a waiting audience out there that was frightened away by
cm> Modernist poetry in school. You feel alienated from your own language, which
cm> is unpleasant," Collins says in phone call from his home in Somers, N.Y.
cm> "There's a syllogism at work here. The syllogism goes like this: I can read
cm> and understand English; this poem was written in English; I can't understand
cm> this poem."
cm>     Any comments?
Why not? It's just another culture, after all.

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