ah the passion of newbies!
komninos
> I've not had the pleasure of Olson's
manifesto, but I
> am sure that someone will say that it is limiting and
> that this is a problem, they always do, imagining
> presumably that there is someway of writing verse that
> isn't limited, it is words not pure thoughts but it is
> this very limit that is expressive. How meaningless to
> complain for example a way of doing art is limited:
> oil paintings are flat: good,, if they weren't no one
> would have had to invent perspective... and how much
> fun was had making them describe the third and fourth
> dimensions. I like very much the propsition that
> poetry is only syllabuls how marvelously playful to
> have to worry about those left out little sylabuls,
> personally the letter is the thing, take care of them
> and and the rest takes care of itself.
>
> more power to your larynx Ali
>
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