> Good statement, Dave
>
> & a series of interesting twists in the poem. And I fully agree with the
> importance of 'grammatical disruptions' which I enjoy...
>
Merci, Doug
and how interesting, and Chinese, to ponder the interest of twists. I think
it's something on the lines of smooth flows of language not running true to
experience.
Best
Dave
----- Original Message -----
From: "Douglas Barbour" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2001 4:11 PM
Subject: Re: While it is hushed
> >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
> Edmonton Alberta Canada T6G 2E5
> (h) [780] 436 3320 (b) [780] 492 0521
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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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