Incidentally I don't suppose anyone's got ideas about the image of the blade
in Peter Riley's work? Most prominent in _Distant Points_ but can be found
in other books, e.g. _Sea Watches_ ("the sea is a knife thrown across the
earth").
Harold, I'm not sure what you're asking, since you're impatient with authors
like Prynne & Olson who take great care about lineation, but on the other
hand don't like the deliberately arbitrary lineation of works like "Artifice
of Absorption" (I think you're taking "ironize" in a different sense from
Keston--he meant enjambment as the locus of irony, not as being
mocked/trivialized). Don't understand your point on translations: lineation
is has little to do with "sound" so can't be said to be privileging "sense
over sound".
all best --N
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