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By: jeannine

jeannine — Sat, 13 May 2006 06:35:00 +0000

Thanks Suzanne, Gerald, Michi, and Ivy! Gerald, thanks for that quote – I love her essays..I think it’s probably just my lust for novelty that makes me disappointed with poems about “old” subjects – I should just shut up and be thankful for any poems at all. Michi – my little brother took Japanese for four years at college, as well, and tried to teach me a few years ago, with the phonetic alphabets, but I got frustrated and gave up. Now I’m starting with the kanji and finding it much more fun!

By: Ivy

Ivy — Fri, 12 May 2006 20:48:00 +0000

Well done, Jeannine! That’s wonderful news!

By: michi

michi — Fri, 12 May 2006 14:04:00 +0000

great news jeannine - i will be reading your book this weekend, though not for homework, simply because i want to. :)

writing kanji ... have fun! i studied japanese for a year, at university, but i gave up then. i simply was not convinced that it was my cup of tea, and not determined enough to do it. i still remember some kanji, some of them are very beautiful too.

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By: Gerald Huml

Gerald Huml — Thu, 11 May 2006 16:28:00 +0000

Wow, some really great news there! I think all writers want to write differently than they do. This reminds of of Louise Gluck in Proofs & Theories saying, “most writers spend much of their time in various kinds of torment: wanting to write, being unable to write; wanting to write differently, being unable to write differently. In a whole lifetime, years are spent wanting to be claimed by an idea. The only real exercise of the will is negative: we have toward what we write the power of veto.”

By: Suzanne

Suzanne — Wed, 10 May 2006 10:32:00 +0000

Great news and more great news! Way to go, Jeannine!