Dear Alison, you blogologs!
>There is a kind of rule of thumb workshop idea of craft,
which was the kind of thing Dave seemed to be calling on in his
criticism of Maurice Scully, which I don't especially find helpful:
this is where rules come in and stamp over the actual expressiveness
of the poem. <
With the piece from Maurice I was self-mislead at first by not knowing it
was an excerpt. What I did feel was that in the piece the 'hang' at the end
of the lines came down with a kind of 'ker-thump' at the start of the next.
But as cris said, it may be that its texture 'thickens', without having read
the whole my judgement is inadequate. Like your blog, only thing I noticed
was that on my PC at least the italicised words came down without separation
from what followed, as if they'd just fallen over.
Best
Dave
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