Jonathon is right... the one-upmanship and academic language games played in here over the past few days is embarrassing... & STILL I wait for an intelligent response to my play, Sixteen Words for Water... Is there anyone out there who cares enough about a living poet's work to take the time to frame an opinion? By the way, those who have not yet read about Ez & the Australian Aborigines (my play) can access it at URL http://homepages.go.com/~wstoneking/stoneking.index Just click on "Sixteen Words for Water - The Complete Script" at the bottom of the page. There is also a play about Eisenstein... & poems from Singing the Snake. Cheers! Billy Marshall Stoneking ----- Original Message ----- From: Jonathan Morse <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Friday, September 03, 1999 6:40 AM Subject: Why we set nomail > Riemannian vs. pseudo-Riemannian, ching ming vs. zheng ming, and all in > public. . . . From a distance, it sounds very much like a pair of members > of the 9th-grade science club, each trying to demonstrate that he's the > smartest kid in the room. Of course that insufferable old radio show "The > Quiz Kids" wound up giving America two good poets, but boy the price was > high. Can we keep the focus on the works of Ezra Pound, please? > > But you don't KNOW which two poets were Quiz Kids? Nyah nyah. L.E. Sissman > and John Ashbery. Sissman was also the winner of a nationwide spelling bee, > but he went on to turn into an adult anyway. Take him as your role model. > > Jonathan Morse >