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Re: book review

From:Roger Mills <romilly@...>
Date:Sunday, June 4, 2000, 3:42
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? >