Not P but Joni

[Mark Kohut]

The phrase *"Circle Game"* was a known 'thing', allusive meme as it were,
in Canada
when Joni Mitchell was singing in coffee houses and writing (and reading).
Leonard Cohen was a lover-influence until she threw him over.
One probably superficial or plain wrong article I read said that she felt
he was unoriginal as a songwriter--she started to fall for him because
of Suzanne--after reading many of the poets and other works he recommended
to her. (9 year age difference). *Both Sides Now* started when'
Joni was taking her first plane ride and looked down on clouds while she
was reading Bellow's Henderson the Rain King, she has said.

Anyway, this very famous (as a book of poetry) collection from Peggy Atwood
is at least partly indebted, most say, maybe even she herself, don't
remember,
to a famously tragic love triangle or betrayal and unrequited love and
awful suicide involving at least two employees of the small publishing
house Peggy was working in too.
(I think the self-victim did it in a way that made the woman find his body
at the office, or bad enough like that.)

Circle Game Paperback – 1964-1965
by Margaret Atwood
<https://www.amazon.com/Margaret-Atwood/e/B000AQTHI0/ref=dp_byline_cont_book_1>
  (Author), Sherrill Grace
<https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=dp_byline_sr_book_2?ie=UTF8&field-author=Sherrill+Grace&text=Sherrill+Grace&sort=relevancerank&search-alias=books>
 (Introduction)
4.7 out of 5 stars    25 ratings
<https://www.amazon.com/Circle-Game-Margaret-Atwood/dp/0887846297#customerReviews>
Containing many of Atwood's best and most famous poems, The Circle Game won
the 1966 Governor General's Award for Poetry and rapidly attained an
international reputation as a classic of modern poetry.
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Joni sings it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7x4ESsDq6wc


On Wed, Jun 23, 2021 at 4:22 AM Thomas Eckhardt <thomas.eckhardt at uni-bonn.de>
wrote:

> Danke!
>
> On Wed, 23 Jun 2021 09:20:02 +0100
>   Erik T. Burns <eburns at gmail.com> wrote:
> > https://www.nixonfoundation.org/2009/07/pynchon-in-nixonland/
>
>