Talk:Paul Metcalf

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Paul Metcalf is to be deleted on these grounds?

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non-referenced US writer biography; questionable notoriety

Is this a joke?

800 Pokemon articles and nothing for one of the country's great experimental writers! I take some responsibility for letting this article languish as a stub once created. I will do Mr. Metcalf justice in due course. What is needed now to keep the deletionist at bay? Proof of the subject's "notoriety"? Compromising pictures of him with schoolboys?

Or did the deletionist mean notability?

Metcalf had a full-page obit in the New York Times on January 31, 1999. "Like a medieval chronicler with the eye of a poet and the heart of a taleteller, he fits together radiant fragments into a wholly new kind of construct," said Guy Davenport.

His book Genoa was reviewed by William Gass for the New York Times in 1965. ("Parallel Patterns," by W.H. Gass, June 19, 1966).

Metcalf was one of the great compilers of other men's voices. The legacy of his great-grandfather weighed upon him in this regard. Pound was also an inspiration. He would have loved Wikipedia: a palimpsest of voices. --G-Dett 00:39, 13 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Maybe you could be the one to add some sources to the article, then? Incidentally, "listen you heathens" is a personal attack, and not at all the way Wikipedians talk to one another. Not everyone has heard of everyone; that's why we have the requirement that all articles include references. -FisherQueen (Talk) 11:43, 13 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I was kidding, sorry. I know Metcalf is borderline obscure. I'll add two or three sources by the end of the day. I've been meaning to expand it for some time now. All best,--G-Dett 14:33, 13 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]