Frank said
>One thing that strikes me in discussions of form in general is that form is
>often understood as a kind of architecture (sonnet, rhyme scheme, stanza,
>metrics, etc.) Not to knock our traditions, which are deep and wide, there
>is another form I think of, forms of consciousness and how that shapes
>experience/language. I would offer your own bpNichol as an example of how
>consciousness shapes the form of poetry. Just a thought.
And a lovely, pertinent thought it is, too. Thanks. Indeed, if ever there
were a poet who practiced formal innovation continually, bpNichol was that
poet...
Doug
Douglas Barbour
Department of English
University of Alberta
Edmonton Alberta Canada T6G 2E5
(h) [780] 436 3320 (b) [780] 492 0521
http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/dbhome.htm
Beauty's whatever
makes the adrenalin run.
John Newlove
|