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Tuesday, September 26, 2006

Poet tells freshmen to scribble, not Hi-Lite

"The ideal reader is someone who reads with a dictionary and a pencil," he said. "You create a dialogue, a visible one, between yourself and the author," says Billy Collins, imploring freshman at University of Oregon to just say no to Hi-Liters.

I'M READING: an advance reading copy of The Book of Martyrdom and Artifice - First Journals and poems: 1937-1952 Allen Ginsberg / edited by Juanita Lieberman-Plimpton and Bill Morgan.

Boston University Professor to Talk on War and Poetry Sept. 28 ~ Boston University Professor James A. Winn will discuss his current book, "War and Poetry," Thursday, Sept. 28, at 4 p.m. in the University of Wyoming College of Business auditorium.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

The idea of hilighting a poem absolutely makes my skin crawl. Do people actually do this? I like to mark up facing-page translations with pencil (sometimes pen, if I really dislike the translator) -- but permanent yellow hilighter? Subtle.

Lucindyl said...

Ah ha! Thanks for the Collins quote. It certainly goes right along with Marginalia, doesn't it?