Sorry to butt in Candice and Kent: but as thought tends to shake down to
standard tropes don't you think poetry is a matter of rhetoric as much as
anything else?
Mairead
On Sun, 20 May 2001, Candice Ward wrote:
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> If poetry and prose equally constitute thought formalized in and as writing,
> the features of which reflect the effort (more or less unconscious) to
> reproduce its formal qualities as thought, then the whole question is more
> cognitive than aesthetic. And that's how I experience the process by which a
> poem comes about within me--as thought moving over the face of my waters,
> then throwing itself over my edge and onto the page. The poem's lineation
> there (like the prose text's margination) is formative--it's how the thought
> shakes down into and as written language--for me anyway.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Candice
>
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