Dave, I simply take quite literally Randolph's original invitation "to interpret . . . as widely as possible . . . public speech [and] lectures". Every
word (and even some of the syntactical units) literally was spoken by the subject named in each text's title. Usually within an announced lecture
or artist's talk, though occasionally via a television profile or a print interview. I'm finding that my acrostic/diastic sonnet "net" formally organizes
the words it "catches" in a more satisfying manner than my earlier process of intuitive note-taking based on comparative aesthetic "significance"
of spoken formulations. Barry
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