Judy Mc McDonough asks:
<<I'm curious though about this phrase: "I am endeavouring to broaden. . . ,"
and in a wider sense I'm curious about how other people handle this
transition.>>
It seems to me this just happens if you want to stay alibe to
possibilities. At any rate, in my case, it was a matter of realizing that
repeating what I could do easily no longer excited me (although one
continues to write such poems, upon 'occasion'). But I became much more
interested in getting away from the 'lyric ego' & that meant exploring some
of the means Finnegan mentioned. which brings me back to paying attention
to language (itself an experience) rather than just writing down what
happened to you...
I could go on...
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
Although they are
Only breath, words
which I command
are immortal
Sappho (Mary Barnard trans)
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