on 7/6/01 12:24 AM, kent johnson at [log in to unmask] wrote:
> But what occurs to me from Alison's question is that oral poetries,
> traditionally, have origin in more or less anonymous sources, and, too, to
> gather much of their collective, proliferating energy (like a strom around
> its still center?) from that central anonymity.
Anonymous? To us maybe but not to those in the specific tradition, I'm
wondering. Just because a name is not 'attached' at one level doesn't mean
people don't know (or attribute to) the person/family/collective from which
it came.
Just a thought,
Jill
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