Not P but Joni

[Charles Albert]

"while she
was reading Bellow's Henderson the Rain King,"


Thank you, MalignD....for that and Pale Fire.



love,

cfa



On Wed, Jun 23, 2021, 6:12 AM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
> ------------------------------
> 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/
> >
> >
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