komninosa asks:
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>i wonder are there any other spaces, metaphorically internal spaces, that
>the listener/reader/interactor and poem collaborate to create?
I'd say all the discussion about 'spacing', & the page as a field, as out
of Olson etc in the US counts a lot. the physical spacing on the page a
sign of spaced sounds & silences within the poem -- which remains important
to me when I write/ as I write...
Douglas Barbour
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Shakespeare
Drag yr mouldy old bones
Up these stairs & tell me
What you died of,
I think
I've got it
Too.
Sharon Thesen
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