Word: aram
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first break I got here this fall. I was just another junior--a regular sort, interested mostly in tutorial papers and chasing mopeds. And then one day, a little magazine that I'm sure you're familiar with hit the newsstands for the first time. The magazine was Padan Aram, and the rest is history. Alright, so being travel editor for a poetry magazine doesn't sound like the most exciting thing in the world, but you'd be surprised who I got to meet...
...external appearances looked like your typical crackpot scientist's basement laboratory. There were the obligatory vapor-emitting test-tubes, cages full of mice, and banks of multi-colored lights rhythmically beating on and off. Something seemed amiss, however. The mice weren't soiling the copies of Padan Aram that had been placed in their cages. No, it looked to me as though they were reading them...
...grounds for the assumption that the context in which the article was written is valid. It is not valid. I was never told that "All Flesh" had been "accepted" by the Advocate. Hence I can hardly be labelled "irresponsible" for not telling them it had been accepted by Padan Aram. Och, I did not invite the rivetters in. I am reminded of Richard Nixon's political technique of discrediting opponents by, e.g., asking them to wriggle their way out of implication in the "parking-meter scandal": the more elaborate the proofs offered, the more skeptically are they received...
...essential that I add, as an apophasis that is not an apophasis, the explicit affabulation underlying what I wrote above. It would be nice if both the Advocate and Padam Aram could reduce their heretofore amusing, henceforth sinister rivalries, and pay more attention to the idiocies of writing poems, less to the idiocies of publishing them. In any case, I am a gazelle. Jeffrey Gustavson...
...There's often an overlap between Padan Aram and the Advocate," he added...