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From: aglew@ccvaxa.UUCP
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Subject: American Out Loud
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Date: Mon, 26-May-86 19:44:00 EDT
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Posted: Mon May 26 19:44:00 1986
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Nf-From: ccvaxa.UUCP!aglew    May 26 18:44:00 1986


Listening to poems read on the radio in an American accent: 

Read the living words before you listen to the dead voices of
American poets. These people speak in monotone, veiled syllables
that only reveal a shape when you put your arms around them. 
Do they speak slowly? Yes! Do they think slowly? Or have they
bypassed language and surpassed the chantings of older accents?
Do they speak colourlessly because their poetry is in some other
place, where I am not?