>--On Mon, 9 Oct 2000 6:05 PM -0400 "David E. Latane"
><[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>> Well, in print quoting a whole poem gets flagged no matter what. I know
>> one person who wrote a book on heaney and had to cut all quotations over
>> three lines.
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>
>yep, that's it. or 10%...
>
>best,
>jk
And let me add as both a poet & a critic, that this is a drag. I certainly
wouldn't mind someone quoting a whole poem if they were then discussing it
at some length. And I really feel that for certain kinds of discussion,
having the whole short poem there really helps. I like to point to things
as I talk about them. But like the person on Heaney, I had to maul
Ondaatje's poems, quoting a line or two here & there & hoping any reader
had a book by her side to glance at while reading my discussions. Yuck.
Douglas Barbour
Department of English
University of Alberta
Edmonton Alberta Canada T6G 2E5
(h) [780] 436 3320 (b) [780] 492 0521
http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/dbhome.htm
My roof was once firm
yet now it cannot even
keep the stars out.
Christopher Dewdney
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