Re: book review

THANKS! to the ever-resourceful zHANg for this review:
>    Today I received a book titled _Lingua Franca: An anthology of poetry
by
>linguists_ edited by Donna Jo Napoli & Emily Norwood Rando, Jupiter Press,
>1989.
>($24 ... ouch...157 pages, independent press-style binding... ::: makes
>motions with "paws" like a burnéd chimpanzee:::)
>
        A trip to our tiny (lots of children's books!) library is in order;
I blew my book budget today on Beekes and Comrie........

>    List of poet/linguists (besides the editors): ,(big snip...)
 Kenneth L. Pike,  Alton Beck,
>    <I wrote this all up in case any of you recognize anyone - famous (i.e.
>Paul Friedrich); infamous (i.e. Deborah Tannen); or some old professor, TA,
>colleague, etc.>
>
    Indeed.  Ah, those days at Michigan.  Pike's supposed charisma somehow
left me cold.   Alton (Pete) _Becker_ (sorry to nitpick), his student but
not disciple, was a thorough delight, and one of the reasons I got into
Indonesian/SE Asia.  I recall a very nice poem of his, about an abandoned
temple in Java-- the inner sanctum was an empty room.

Are these really a team?  Such wildly different styles, both fascinating--
>Emily N. Rando & Donna J. Napoli
>
>    MYRRH
>
>    FRANKINCENSE
>
This was good too!
>    zHANg
>
>    Does the Grape Ape translate?
>