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important message from iceland
Posted By: hugleikur <mailto:buddybradley@hotmail.com?subject=important
message from iceland> Dear David Mack
Ok, here’s the thing.
My Name is Thorarinn Hugleikur Dagsson and I live in Reykjavik, Iceland. I
have a confession to make. About a month ago I stumbled into something called
Poetry.com. It’s a website dedicated to amateur poetry. Anyone can write their
own poem into a contest and have the chance of winning some money. Now I thought
it might be fun to make a poem out of comic-book dialogue to see if it would be
taken seriously. I was rereading the new Daredevil series at the time and I put
together a "poem" out of dialogue originally written by Mr. Kevin Smith and Mr.
David Mack.
I thought it might be interesting to see how people would react to a text
like this when not knowing it is actually from a comic-book.
here is the poem:
Hole
When I was a child As it turns out the poem got quite a responce. A week ago I got this letter
from Poetry.com:
"Dear Thorarinn
After carefully reading and discussing your poem, our selection Committee has
certified your poem as a semi-finalist in our International Open Poetry Contest.
Your poem will automatically be entered into the final competition held in May
2001. As a semi-finalist, you now have an excellent chance of winning one of 104
cash or gift prizes—including the $1,000.00 Grand prize. You may even win the $
10,000.00 Annual Grand Prize! We wish you the best of luck as you compete for
these prizes in the coming weeks.
and that’s not all . . . The letter goes on and on about how much of an honor it is for me to chosen
for something lik this. And whil reading it, I couldn’t stop lauching.
Then I thought: "I can’t go on with this! These aren’t even my words!". Now,
I don’t have many principles, but I don’t want to be a plagiarist. Allthough, I
could get away with this, because basically it’s just something called cut-up
poetry. An approach to the form in which written text is taken out of context
and put together as a poem. David Bowie and William Burroughs are among the ones
who have done this before.
What I did, however, was more of an experiment. I am an art student and I
usually learn by testing all sorts of things, and the seeing what happens. I
never expected this to go this far. I hope you aren’t mad or anything, but I’d
understand if you were.
I guess what I’m looking for is some sort of a permission or a blessing. If
you wan’t me to stop this from happening, I will. If you want me to put your
names above the poem, I will. If it wins and you want the award money, I will
send it to you. Because I, as an artist understand if your work is personal to
you. And I don’t want to hurt anybody.
However, if you give me your blessings, I will not take the credits. I have
told the biggest newspaper in Iceland about this and they will print the whole
true story if something happens. And you can also tell people about this in the
Daredevil letterpage or something. After all, a Daredevil-poem acknowledged by a
proffesional comittee as a piece of art is kinda funny.
Wating for a reply, Email: buddybradley@hotmail.com
Address: P.S. I also sent this to Kevin Smith
Date: MON, 5/7/01, 6:24 a.m.
I lost my sight
thanks largely to a good deed.
Somehow I cross the line
a blurring one
where the scents, echoes and
chills
come less from outside my head
and more from inside it.
I’ve
been blind since I was a child
and as a result
I’ve never actually seen
the woman who
cried herself to sleep in my bed last night.
I dreamt that
a picture of her fell down
and broke into pieces.
But they are puzzle
pieces.
I’m trying to put them together
except that I’m drowning
and
they float to the top.
They are parts
of a hole.
In celebration of the unique talaent that you
have displayed, we also wish to puplish your in what promises to be one of the
most highly sought after collections of poetry we have ever published, The
Silence Within."
Thorarinn Hugleikur Dagsson.
Tryggvagata 4B
101 Reykjavík
ICELAND
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