When one of the young lasses at the kids' table – not one of mine, mind you – suggested we all go around & say what we were most thankful for – things were getting really quite moving, lemme tell ya; "oohs" & "ahs" & "hear, hears," eyes being wiped, & so forth – I found myself muttering some words about family & friends & then, Leopold Bloomishly, staring at my bottle & saying, "I'm thankful Arthur Guinness began brewing at the St. James's Gate Brewery in 1759." And I am. And for lots of other things.
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Like, for instance, my lovely podcast on the Poetry Foundation website, if you haven't checked it out yet.
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I greatly enjoyed your talk. If I hadn't already purchased and read your book, the talk would have impelled me to do so.
It was interesting to hear you speak out loud; your tone really brought out the irony and humor inherent in the material.
A note to people who, like me, want to download the talk to listen to on their iPods instead of using the Flash player on the Poetry Foundation's page: the URL is http://poetryfoundation.org/audio/MarkScroggins_PoetryLectures.mp3.
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