Aug. 2

 

This is a thank you to Paul! I am so grateful that not only do we have a guardian of the microphone battery, overseer of room set up -- but poetry organizer extraordinaire!

Word reached me that it was an excellent time -- and on Aug. 9, there was applause from those who attended.  I was sorry to miss.

Unfortunate Coincidence by Dorothy Parker 1893 –1967

Observation  by Dorothy Parker

Captain Kidd  by Stephen Vincent Benét 1898-1943

Dinner in a Quick Lunch Room by Stephen Vincent Benét

[grEEn... ] [All in green went my love riding] by E.E. Cummings  (1898-1943)

proud of his scientific attitude  by E. E. Cummings

The Traveller's Curse after Misdirection  -- by Robert Graves (1895-1985)

The Lord Chamberlain Tells of a Famous Meeting  by Robert Graves

Two Limericks (Atomic Courtesy by Ethel Jacobson; My Face  by Anthony Euwer)

Syria and Palestine  by Alama Iqbal  -- 1877- 1938 (two different translations)

 [1]An Unrelated Coincidence by Fr. Kurt Fahrt

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[1] POEMS FROM IQBAL Translated from the Urdu by V. G. Kiernan:  Published December 1947, by Phiroze K. Mistry for Kutub Publishers Limited, 17, Gunbow Street, Bombay, and printed by S. Ramu, Commercial Printing Press, Fort, Bombay

(133pp) Book purchased in 1950 by Harry John Wood, Saudi Arabia. Later sold by

S M Mir, Bookseller and Publishers Agent, 3/B-Chartered Bank Chambers, Wood St., Karachi-2   I thought you might enjoy the travels of a book of poetry.

 Poetry in that? Bombay to Saudi Arabia to Karachi to Rochester to Fairport.

Paul's note about the final sharing: 

 The Hard Life is a screamingly funny little number....a narrative from the view of a gossoon who hides at the top of the stairs and eavesdrops on the conversations between his father and Fr.Kurt Fahrt, S.J.. So, Fr. Fahrt is a character ( 1 of 3) in a book of argumentative conversations on a myriad of subjects which progresses (as does the volume and vehemence of the two speakers) through the evening to, "Have another one, your eminence ?" The subject matter and the convolutions of logic keep pace with the whiskey.  Translation of the good father's name?  German..Kurt ( little or short)  and Fahrt is meant to stay what it describes in English!).  Beal na Blath was the physical place, the scene of the ambush and murder of Michael Collins, an honest to goodness hero of the Revolution of 1916.