>Thanks for that, Douglas.
>
>Curiously, the repeated 'Swirl' is one element of the piece I am,
>instinctively, sure about. I wanted it there to frame both beginning and
>end, to make the linearity in time of the poem ,as it were, circular, or
>encircled. I wanted it too because it is ambiguous: is it a verb or a noun?
>if it is a verb is it a command and if so who is speaking?
>
>I still hold by, very much so, the grammatical disruptions of 'modernism',
>for me they help lift poetry away from the threat of being merely
>descriptive or anecdotal, and open 'voice' into 'voices'.
>
Good statement, Dave
& a series of interesting twists in the poem. And I fully agree with the
importance of 'grammatical disruptions' which I enjoy...
Doug
Douglas Barbour
Department of English
University of Alberta
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It sounds right, spoken on the ridge
between marine olives and hillside
blue figs, under the breeze fresh
with pollen of Apennine sage.
Basil Bunting
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