That's interesting. What do you mean by "turn on the linebreak"?
> one can get at rhythm in free verse, that music Pound sought. Far too many
> practitioners of free verse (or what I call open form) seem to have no
> sense of the line as such, of the turn on the linebreak. Marlatt, despite
> the fact that her lines almost reached the right hand edge of the page, was
> extremely conscious of it to my listening ear. That turn counted. It always
> does, whether the writer is aware of it doing so or not.
> In the prose poem the sentence counts (or the not-sentence? In that review
> James sent us to, I found the Waldrop & Prevallet most interesting in this
> matter).
Roger
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