Fw: [Sca-cooks] FW: Turkish Recipe

[Laura C. Minnick]

At 02:08 AM 5/16/2005, you wrote:

>Incidentally, I just ordered a translation of some of his poems 
>(food--related
>ones figure prominently in this one, according to the blurb) and the Amazon
>website lists three reviews. They begin:
>
>"America's best-selling poet, 14th century Sufi bard..."
>
>"America's bestselling poet, 13th century Sufi bard..."
>
>"In the form of an anthology, this translation brings together
>translations ... of the poetry of the 12th century Persian mystic..."
>
>If he wrote a dietary manual I want it. Think about it, 300 years.... ;)

Hey, I want to know who dubbed him 'America's best-selling poet'- if only 
so I can grab up some Whitman or Dickinson or Frost or Ginsburg or Hughes 
or Sandburg or... and SHOVE IT DOWN THEIR THROAT!

Not that I feel strongly about this or anything...

'Lainie
poet. don't know it. feet show it.

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O it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous To use it 
like a giant--Shakespeare, Measure for Measure, Act II