Dante, the one-hit wonder

[Eric Nielsen]

On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 11:38 AM, George Thompson <george.thompson at nyu.edu>wrote:

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> ... whose name, according to Mr. Rader’s “shockingly unscientific
> measurements,” appeared most frequently in reader e-mails.... and Li Po,
> whom Mr. Rader called “the great poet of drunkenness.”
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> Lady "I still smoke a lot of pot when I write music" Gaga somehow was
overlooked, or is this a list only for dead poets--or those whose
works don't
include choreography and music.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/02/14/lady-gaga-pot_n_822896.html

Eric

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