Comments on: british schedule taking shape; cleveland state’s list is, too http://www.closecallswithnonsense.com/2009/03/22/british-schedule-taking-shape-cleveland-states-list-is-too/ A poetry blog by Stephen Burt Fri, 23 Jul 2010 04:29:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: equivocal http://www.closecallswithnonsense.com/2009/03/22/british-schedule-taking-shape-cleveland-states-list-is-too/comment-page-1/#comment-107 equivocal Thu, 26 Mar 2009 17:58:43 +0000 http://www.closecallswithnonsense.com/?p=71#comment-107 Huh. Huh.

]]> By: admin http://www.closecallswithnonsense.com/2009/03/22/british-schedule-taking-shape-cleveland-states-list-is-too/comment-page-1/#comment-104 admin Tue, 24 Mar 2009 16:28:20 +0000 http://www.closecallswithnonsense.com/?p=71#comment-104 You're right about Ed Dorn, though you probably like the results he got more than I like them. 'Jaunting' for teleportation comes, I think, from the science fiction of Alfred Bester (1940s-50s)-- neat to know British TV picked it up. You’re right about Ed Dorn, though you probably like the results he got more than I like them.

‘Jaunting’ for teleportation comes, I think, from the science fiction of Alfred Bester (1940s-50s)– neat to know British TV picked it up.

]]> By: Equivocal http://www.closecallswithnonsense.com/2009/03/22/british-schedule-taking-shape-cleveland-states-list-is-too/comment-page-1/#comment-103 Equivocal Tue, 24 Mar 2009 15:32:04 +0000 http://www.closecallswithnonsense.com/?p=71#comment-103 There was a British TV show from the 70s about sci fi adolescents called Tommorow People, that I watched and loved in Africa in the early 80s. In it, they called teleportation "jaunting". I liked that very much. I'm very curious and excited to hear more about your paper on British-American disconnects and mishearings. Incidentally, one American poet who really did learn a few things from the Brits in the 20th century was Ed Dorn-- I'm continually startled to hear so much of the British sense of prosody and approach to the language in his work, even if he owns it, deeply Americanises it, combines it with what might be understood as an American sense of the line. There was a British TV show from the 70s about sci fi adolescents called Tommorow People, that I watched and loved in Africa in the early 80s. In it, they called teleportation “jaunting”. I liked that very much.

I’m very curious and excited to hear more about your paper on British-American disconnects and mishearings. Incidentally, one American poet who really did learn a few things from the Brits in the 20th century was Ed Dorn– I’m continually startled to hear so much of the British sense of prosody and approach to the language in his work, even if he owns it, deeply Americanises it, combines it with what might be understood as an American sense of the line.

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