I've used many of the devices under discussion, but then we all agree
I'm a genius & can do any damn thing; but I have to admit that as a
poetry editor, when I see a poem center justified I know for a fact
without reading a word that it is written by someone who has read almost
no poetry, but for whom this arrangement _says_ poetry. That is, center
justification is a _sufficient_ marker for "poetry." The same is not
true for the use of ampersands. One of my favorite American
contemporaries, Claire Bateman, uses them as well. Unless one eschews
capital letters altogether, I find the small i affected, but this seems
more a matter of taste than principle.
jd
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Joseph Duemer
School of Liberal Arts-5750
Clarkson University
Potsdam NY 13699
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"Always come down from the barren heights
of cleverness into the green valleys of folly."
::Wittgenstein
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