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>----- Original Message -----
>From: Mills, Billy
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>Sent: 22 February 2000 13:19
>Subject: RE: Lyric
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>I also consider many of the other poets on this list to be lyric poets, and
>would be interested to hear what they might have to say on the matter.
Yes, I do consider myself among those so blessed, although not in every
poem, often w not even that intention. For those who heard me reading from
"As in 'T' as in 'Tether'" at 3 Cups in Nov, I consider that work lyric.
Theres a strong 'music' to them, altho i wouldnt want to sing them. (And
like others here, I have written songs--put out a songbook 24 years ago).
The book _My Poetry_ contains little that I find lyrical, but _Desire_ has
plenty. Theres an ugly phrase, 'analytic lyric,' (surely no lyric poet,
however occasional, came up w that one), for which i'd substitute
'illyric,'just to discriminate from the bafflegab we grew up with, which
begins to find category for what not a few of us do.
The 'musical' is not just (or even) like-sounding clusters of phonemes, it
is a thrust-off that describes trajectories sustained (if i'm lucky) till
it ends (disintegrates? crashes? 'Plash'?) Creeley : "It is all a
rhythm."
Must keep myself brief, one cd go on for ever w so promising a topic. David
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