<<I wouldn't lose sleep over ampersands in a poem, though I would
probably put a book which used them back on the shelf without
reading it . . .>>
You would miss the work of Larry Levis, in that case. In general,
I agree with the strictures mentioned my Roddy & David agains
centered lines, small i first person pronount & the rest, but the
ampersand, if I am not mistaken, has at least the weight of
history on its side, having been used regularly in early books.
David Kennedy, do you know more about this? In any case, the
relationship between orthography & language is far from simple.
jd
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Opusculum paedagogum.
The pears are not viols,
Nudes or bottles.
They resemble nothing else.
Stevens
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