On Mon, 10 Jul 2000, David Kennedy wrote...
>Oh get over yersel', big man! This sounds like a massively ill-informed
>dismissal of strategies common to a multiplicity of innovative poetries to
>me and, by implication, of those poetries themselves. Won't do, really won't
>do at all.
>
I'd side with Roddy on this one. Certainly the techniques were *once*
innovative, but anyone using them today is more than likely to be aping
that innovation.
But I suspect there is a bit of cross-purposeness in the discussion,
with some talking about whether ampersands &c could ever have been used
to interesting effect (of course they could), and others more concerned
about the validity of their use today (much more difficult).
--
Peter
http://www.hphoward.demon.co.uk/poetry/
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