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In a message dated 2/15/2012 4:16:16 PM Central Standard Time,
stevenorquist@GMAIL.COM writes:
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> R S Gwynn refers to 67 Mixed Messages. Since the Wikipedia "bio" on Ed
> Allen appears to be, in some respects, a joke by Ed himself to illustrate his
> view of the internet as a "giant bathroom graffiti wall," here's Dr.
> Allen's real autobiographical info:
> http://ahsahtapress.boisestate.edu/books/allen/allen-bio.htm
>
The publisher asked me to blurb Ed Allen's book. I'd never heard of him
but thought the complex sonnet sequence (we're talking complex here!) was
worthy of praise, which I has happy to give. The book recounts a very
Nabokovian obsession of poet with unexpected "muse," even though the poet himself is
a little uncertain about his own sexual orientation.
Here's the "afterstory":
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2011/09/poet-and-publisher-sued-by-s
onnet-subject-in-south-dakota/
Search archive with Google:
http://www.google.com/advanced_search?q=site:listserv.ucsb.edu&HL=en
Contact the Editors: mailto:nabokv-l@utk.edu,nabokv-l@holycross.edu
Visit Zembla: http://www.libraries.psu.edu/nabokov/zembla.htm
View Nabokv-L policies: http://web.utk.edu/~sblackwe/EDNote.htm
Visit "Nabokov Online Journal:" http://www.nabokovonline.com
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stevenorquist@GMAIL.COM writes:
>
>
> R S Gwynn refers to 67 Mixed Messages. Since the Wikipedia "bio" on Ed
> Allen appears to be, in some respects, a joke by Ed himself to illustrate his
> view of the internet as a "giant bathroom graffiti wall," here's Dr.
> Allen's real autobiographical info:
> http://ahsahtapress.boisestate.edu/books/allen/allen-bio.htm
>
The publisher asked me to blurb Ed Allen's book. I'd never heard of him
but thought the complex sonnet sequence (we're talking complex here!) was
worthy of praise, which I has happy to give. The book recounts a very
Nabokovian obsession of poet with unexpected "muse," even though the poet himself is
a little uncertain about his own sexual orientation.
Here's the "afterstory":
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2011/09/poet-and-publisher-sued-by-s
onnet-subject-in-south-dakota/
Search archive with Google:
http://www.google.com/advanced_search?q=site:listserv.ucsb.edu&HL=en
Contact the Editors: mailto:nabokv-l@utk.edu,nabokv-l@holycross.edu
Visit Zembla: http://www.libraries.psu.edu/nabokov/zembla.htm
View Nabokv-L policies: http://web.utk.edu/~sblackwe/EDNote.htm
Visit "Nabokov Online Journal:" http://www.nabokovonline.com
Manage subscription options: http://listserv.ucsb.edu/