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<DIV><FONT face="Palatino Linotype">Hello All,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Palatino Linotype">Another Moscow author reading suggestion--
Buddy Levy's new book of historical nonfiction arrived on the shelves and at
Bookpeople this week. <EM>Conquistador</EM> relates the story of Cortez and
Montezuma, the fall of an empire, etc. Buddy is a meticulous researcher and a
helluva good writer, and the story therein underpins the overtaking of the "New
World." Necessary knowledge, I would say, to help in understanding the fomenting
of our culture. I remember, for example, hearing the poet W. S, Merwin some
time ago in Tucson talking about the Vietnam war. He claimed that Vietnam did
not begin at DienBien Phu or later. Rather, it began when the first Spaniard
plunged a knife into the back of the first Mayan he encountered.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Palatino Linotype">It should be a good read, as well as those
recommended by Bookpeople earlier-- <EM>Jackalope Dreams</EM> by Mary Blew (her
first novel in a lifetime of prose writing). Stephanie Lenox's <EM>The Heart
That Lies Outside the Body</EM>, which uses the personae of Guinness record
holders of weird events (such as the title voice whose heart <EM>is</EM>
outside of his body and he is still alive, the world's oldest male stripper, a
human cannonball team, and so on in the poems. Also Jeff Jones' <EM>Stratus
Opacus</EM> which I am still finishing and am grateful for the copy he gave me
(Jeff, if you're reading this, I owe you ten bucks or twelve poems or both). And
so on with all of the others Bookpeople mentioned before. We have superb talent
right here in the deeply troubled psyche of Moscow.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Palatino Linotype">I'd be happy to recommend a couple of
Montanans as well.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Palatino Linotype">Read locally, write globally (sorry Daily
News),</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Palatino Linotype">Warren
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