These are all poems which reference music, rather than drawing on its
structures which, given the very big differences in practice between
musical and poetical composition, seems to me the bigger challenge
(and I suspect is probably impossible). I haven't read Zukofsky
(ducking here) but Enslin, whom I like very much indeed, said some
fascinating things about the process of writing poems with
compositional structures of music in mind. Unfortunately I can't
find the magazine where they were printed... but a quick google
search brought up a couple of poems, which will probably be more
interesting anyway -
http://www.thing.net/~grist/l&d/lenslin1.htm
http://www.languagehat.com/archives/000665.php
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> > And of course Stevens' "Peter Quince at the Clavier."
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>> Mark
>
>It always seemed to me that "Peter Quince" went back to Browning -- maybe
>even specifically "historical thoughts occurring while playing a keyboard
>instrument" ('A Toccata'). More general musical reference is of course
>pervasive in Stevens -- e.g. "A High Toned Old Christian Woman".
>
>Another Scot (one whom Tom Leonard admires immensely):
>
>W.S.Graham, "Johann Joachim Quantz's Five Lessons".
>
>Robin
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