I'd give Olson another try if what bothers you is voids. But it does seem a
strange way to divide the turf--Stevens, for whom I share your taste, is
given to lacunae, and it's hard to imagine a poet more discursive than
Williams very often is.
At 11:57 PM 11/7/2000 -0000, Alan Marshfield wrote:
>Dear Douglas Barbour,
>
>You're obviously right, there are many forms of difficulty, each nesting in
>its own family tree. I've been less interested in the manner of Williams,
>Zukofsky, Olson than that of Stevens, Wilbur, Hecht, where the point is more
>in the said than in the unsaid, more in rhetoric than in voids. I'm getting
>round to Williams slowly.
>
>Alan Marshfield
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