At 6:35 PM +0000 12/16/02, Wild Honey Press wrote:
>O.K. yes, strong verbs, though a part of me is uneasy with the suggestion,
>possibly entirely my own, of a Charles Atlas school of poetry where a poem
>shd avoid "weakness".
>
>Maybe I feel that the strength, if that's the word, of a poem should blow
>where it list and cannot be programmed in.
This is interesting, if you'll forgive me the verb! And the image of
a Charles Atlas poem kicking sand in the face of other, weakling
poems is rather enchanting, at least in the abstract (perhaps less
enchanting to meet such a poem).
But is "is" a weak verb? Does that apply to all the verb's
conjugations (To be, etc...)? Since it contains "being" and
initiates presence, part of me is astonished at the idea.
I too liked the repetitions of is/is in Arni's poem, and should be
sorry to see them go.
Best
Alison
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