Next Scheduled Update: Wednesday, 9 August, 2006
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Jos, NIGERIA - The tone of Ike's letters began to change by the time our son, Junior, was born. The change didn't register with me right away, though. Perhaps because I was too caught up in my pregnancy and then the arrival of our son, or perhaps because the changes were very subtle. "Being black is a definite disadvantage here," he wrote. "They don't give you much chance." "Nothing is free here," I read in another of his letters. "You have to pay for everything. It makes it so difficult to set aside money if you aren't earning much." Even his ecstatic views of the "fantastic" weather changed. ... READ MORE Dublin, IRELAND - What is a poet? And how do you know one? Dan Paddy Andy O' Sullivan once, doubting the credentials of a would-be-rhymer, said; "He hasn't the?arse of a poet". According to Patrick Kavanagh; " A poet is not one of the people ... a poet is an institution". Well. Not being well versed in the "phrenology" of the southern regions of the anatomy, I'm not qualified to comment on the diagnosis of the man with the triple name. However, of Kavanagh's assertion I would say that Dan Keane is one of the people and an institution. As John Dewey said about Ralph Waldo Emerson he is "The poet of ordinary days". ... READ MORE |
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